Sir - While asylum-seekers are forced to sleep in parks due to the indifference of our Government and the inability of officials at the Refugee Application Centre to cope, the UCC Philosophical Society is inviting the pro-Nazi "historian" David Irving to address it on Monday, November 11th.
Mr Irving has often spoken of the Holocaust as a Jewish exaggeration. He has been closely associated with the Ku Klux Klan, with the apartheid regime in South Africa, with US anti-Semitic organisations and with the Canadian Ernst Zundel, who denies the Holocaust. It is totally wrong of the UCC Philosophical Society to give David Irving a platform and thus help further fan the flames of Irish racism. The link between the isolation of the Jews who sought asylum in vain before the second World War, and the isolation of asylum-seekers in our "can-do, well-off, aren't we wonderful little European country" (Padraig O'Morain, Opinion, November 11th), is only too painful. - Yours, etc.,
Ronit Lentin, Leinster Road, Dublin 6.