Madam, - I write in support of Martin Cullen's reaction to the planned introduction of prohibition.
For decades I have enjoyed the liberty of having a smoke with my pint, as have my neighbours and friends. To have this liberty stolen from me at the stroke of a ministerial pen is plain old-fashioned fascism. I object to the health nazis who wish to inflict a social world of their own design on all of us (for our own good, of course).
Prohibition never works. - Yours, etc.,
JOSEPH DOLAN, Recess, Co Galway.
Madam, - Soon, we won't be able to smoke in a pub, get drunk in a pub, or boo players we don't like at soccer matches.
The asylum seems to have been taken over by right-wing American Christian evangelists. Bring back the lunatics. - Yours, etc.,
FRANK O'NEILL, Miltown Malbay, Co Clare.