Madam, - The PDs, not content with being almost wiped out at the last election and being dumped by their last leader, are now indulging in an unseemly split over the Mahon tribunal (The Irish Times, January 16th). I understand that splitting peas are a remarkable phenomenon but splitting PDs, when there are only two in the Dáil, and still holding on to power, leave me speechless. - Yours, etc,
PATRICK O'BYRNE, Shandon Crescent, Phibsborough, Dublin 7.