Sir, - We act for Mr Andy Smith, Pearse House, Dublin 2. Our client has instructed us in relation to a report in your newspaper on November 15th last coning the case De Rossa v Independent Newspapers.
In that report, Mr De Rossa was questioned about alleged counterfeiting at a Repsol print shop at the back of the Worker's Party premises in Gardiner Place. He later went on, in his evidence, to say that the Gardai interviewed some staff from the said print workshop in Repsol in Gardiner Place. He mentioned the name of our client as being one of those people interviewed by the Gardai.
Our client wishes it to be known that he was never interviewed by the Gardai in relation to this matter, and the report has caused him considerable distress and embarrassment. - Yours, etc.,
Solicitors,
Cope Street,