Sir, - Dick Walsh, with his usual perspicacity, comments (Opinion, May 29th) that the vaunted foreign policy seminars to "widen the debate, increase transparency and to maximise ownership of policy by the people" have not materialised. Discussion on PfP, for instance, should not be left to rent-a-rants, ivory tower tenants, or pathological, xenophobic coteries.
The young educated population want to know where axe-grinders are coming from and are curious about the foreign-policy-producing events that thread our durable Irish history. Media, please note. - Yours, etc., J. P. Duggan,
Cedarmount Road, Mount Merrion, Co Dublin.