Sir, - Mr Kevin Myers's recent critical piece about Collins and De Valera in An Irishman's (sic) Diary, he rightly pointed out that both men were, to all intents and purposes, fatherless.
Had their fathers been around, they would probably have given both of them a clout on the ear and told them to behave and to stop dismantling the British Empire. - Yours, etc., Pat McHugh,
William Street, Drogheda, Co Louth.