Sir, - Gerry Adams keeps telling us that decommissioning is a "painful experience" for republicans. Our sycophantic Government and media refer to this without a trace of irony or even a hint that we might all have had enough of this cant by now.
No chance I suppose of a thought for the 2,000 innocent people murdered by Sinn FΘin/IRA and the tens of thousands injured and maimed, some of whom will spend the rest of their lives in a vegative state. Don't you think it might have been a painful experience for them? - Yours, etc.,
Des MacMahon, Shrewsbury Park, Dublin 4.