JOHN E. O'REILLY,
Madam, - The delight and relief which so many felt as a result of the Yes vote to Nice was somewhat spoiled, for me at least, by the pathetic responses of An Taoiseach to the queries of the world's media on Sunday afternoon. It was an embarrassment to witness on television this bungling, fumbling, inadequate, inarticulate, incoherent and incompetent performance. - Yours, etc.,
JOHN E. O'REILLY, Rosemount, Enniskerry, Co Wicklow.
Madam, - Yes! Yes! Yes, the reversal of the last vote is down to increased public awareness and political lobbying on behalf of the Nice treaty.
Dare I suggest that, perhaps during the interim period, we have as a nation become much more comfortable with our relatively new multi-cultural society and thus less insular in our thinking?
Yes? - Yours, etc.,
PAM LYONS, Rosslyn Court, Bray, Co Wicklow.
Madam, - A letter appeared in your pages last week exhorting a No vote in the Nice referendum. It was signed by a list of luminaries in the arts, including one Kate Thompson.
May I take this opportunity to make it clear that there are two authors in Ireland who go by the name of Kate Thompson? I am Kate Thompson, actress, writer, and voiceover artist, and, since I am resolutely apolitical, I would be astonished to think that any of your readers would be remotely interested in which way I might vote! - Yours, etc.,
KATE THOMPSON, Lauderdale Terrace, The Liberties, Dublin 8.
Madam, - I would like to concur unequivocally with the sentiment expressed by Martyn Turner in his cartoon on in Monday's edition. Now that we've had a second Nice Treaty referendum, which enjoyed greater information, more truthful debate and an improved analysis of the consequences of both outcomes than the first one, is there not now a compelling argument for a second 2002 general election based on the same premise? - Yours etc.,
MICHAEL SCANLON, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4.