Sir, - It's a bit rich, Cardinal Connell feeling miffed at not being awarded an honorary degree by Trinity in 1988. Only 16 years before that, his predecessors in the archbishop's house were taking the opposite line, and strictly forbidding Catholics to go to Trinity for even a primary degree.
Trinity was supposed to be dangerous to their faith and morals. And since the cardinal chose to remark that Archbishop Empey may not be a theological "high flyer", he can hardly take offence at the widespread opinion that he himself is not one of his own church's "high flyers" when it comes to plain cop-on and common-sense. - Yours, etc.,
Peter Boyle, Terenure, Dublin 6W.