Sir, - Two hours' drive from Dublin, 10 people have been violently murdered in the past month. Yet, judging from the Letters page for this period, which is perhaps a general barometer of public opinion, these murders have not engendered much comment or attention.
Compare this with the correspondence regarding the President's Communion, BMWs, rezoning, gender, Indonesia, for example, about all of which people feel strongly enough to write. Is this an overall reflection of an ostrich approach to the problems of the North? If 10 people had been murdered in Co Cork in the past month I have no doubt what reaction this would cause, and rightly so. But in Co Tyrone or Co Antrim? - Yours, etc.,
M. Nuinseann,
Dublin 7.