Sir, - After what police accurately described as "a nightmare of human misery" in Wexford at the weekend, it is about time that we in Ireland face up to the reality that mass migration is a feature of our time and that so called "controls" are at best ineffective and at worst contributory factors to such tragedies.
I also hope that the ┴ine N∅ Chonaills of this world - whom your paper inexplicably and indefensibly supplies with ample space on its letters page - will accept their share of responsibility in promoting racist ideas of cultural purity and the effect this has on public perceptions of immigrants. - Yours, etc.,
Paul McCarthy, Glasnevin Avenue, Dublin 11.