Sir, - With reference to the current crisis facing Harland and Wolff, we should be eager to help our fellow countrymen in Belfast to preserve the great tradition of shipbuilding in that city. Would the Irish Government not, with immediate effect, place an order for four naval vessels to enable our navy to effectively protect potentially our most valuable resource, which we have been told is at present covered with the equivalent of two garda cars for an area the size of Ireland? - Is mise,
Peter Monahan, Drogheda, Co Louth.