Madam, - The absence of adequate and free legal aid for immigrant parents of Irish-born children facing deportation orders in the wake of the Supreme Court decision of last January is a most unwelcome development of this controversial ruling. In the light of the Government's declared intention to welcome back to this country its emigrant Irish born sons and daughters who may wish to return to Ireland, am I alone in believing that the government is open to the accusation of operating a double standard in relation to "national identity entitlement" as expressed in Article 2 of the Constitution? - Yours, etc,
Bishop PETER BARRETT, Cashel and Ossory, The Diocesan Office, St Canice's Library, St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny.
Madam, - I cannot bring my head around to understand why there is a further need to pock-mark the face of Irish life with new anguish by deporting Irish citizens and their parents.
Modern Ireland must use its collective imagination to resolve this matter rather than reverting to the hated colonial solutions of the past. We cannot unlive our past. But do we have to relive it by deporting Irish citizens and manufacturing new anguish? - Yours, etc.,
BOBBY GILMORE SSC, Migrant Rights Centre, Beresford Place, Dublin 1.