Sir, - In my youth, a popular read was The Riddle of the Sands, set off the Dutch coast and written by Erskine Childers, father of our late President.
Mr Ray Burke gave us a sequel "The Riddle of the Line in the Sand", set presumably off the North Dublin coast.
Might the Minister not have been better advised to think of Peter and to have etched his line permanently on a large rock? Mr Burke's line, like a child's sandcastle, would inevitably disappear on the next tide, which may indeed have already turned against him. - Yours, etc.,
Abercorn, Dublin 18.