Sir, - In her refusal to endorse the re-election of Mr David Trimble as the North's First Minister, Assembly member Ms Pauline Armitage cites a lack of detailed plans for future IRA disarmament as one of her reasons (The Irish Times October 29th),
Yet another unionist politician joins the ranks of begrudgers and political pygmies. Once again tunnel-visioned unionism continues to attack the silent and disappearing guns of republicans while at the same time ignoring the daily onslaught on little girls going to school in Ardoyne, and nightly riots involving pipe and blast-bomb attacks by loyalist thugs on their Catholic neighbours and the security forces.
Double standards from two-faced politicians. - Yours, etc.,
Tom Cooper, Knocklyon Woods, Dublin 16.