Sir, - I regretted it when, about a month ago, my car was stopped by a garda who politely told me that my black-faced number plates were illegal ("Crackdown over vehicle plates", May 13th). So I got a new pair and fitted them reluctantly, as the car is a rare classic model unsuited to the new EU type plates.
A few weeks later I noticed, when attending a book launch by Minister Harney on board a Naval Service ship in Dun Laoghaire, that her official car, parked nearby, was also a law breaker, as it had the older aluminium letters upon a black background. Could we have ended up in the same cell, I wonder? - Yours, etc., Arthur Reynolds,
Seapoint Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.