Madam, - I note that Kevin Myers used his Irishman's Diary of March 4th to attack me personally and venomously.
Regrettably, Mr Myers admitted that he wrote his ad hominem remarks because I wrote a factual letter to your paper (February 28th) calling for the Government to have the Irish language recognised officially as an EU language.
In his rancorous polemic, Mr Myers didn't dispute the statistics but alleged my statements were of a "hallucinatory" nature. This is just gratuitous abuse and what I can't understand is why The Irish Times allows such "tabloid" ranting. - Yours, etc.,
SEAMUS LANTRY, Father Mathew Street, Cork.