Madam, - Have your readers forgotten how, not long before the last general election, the Green Party declared its solemn commitment to an independent inquiry into the whole debacle of Shell and Corrib gas and the unaccountable processes of fragmentary planning permissions, ministerial directives and generally unscrupulous hugger-mugger that have led to the current calamity? Now a woman is on hunger strike because no one in authority will even admit anything has gone wrong, or any answer is needed to her dreadfully urgent questions.
The Greens' commitment was, of course, dropped when the party slid into government. But it can be revived, it should be revived, it needs to be revived, now. Gas can wait, a woman's life can't. All work on the Corrib Gas project should stop until the truth of the project's history is properly exposed. Maura Harrington might be induced to come off her hunger strike. The Green Party might conceivably regain its credibility. - Yours, etc,
MARGARETTA D'ARCY and JOHN ARDEN, Galway.