Madam, - In connection with Saturday's (March 29th) Editorial, I would like to make the following comments about your vindictive and triumphalist tone against our successful, hard-working, and extremely dedicated Taoiseach.
Your behaviour 18 months ago was unwarranted because the Taoiseach, like each of us, is entitled to his confidentiality. Ever since, you have tried the death-by-thousand-cuts witch-hunt of Mr Ahern.
Now you are telling us that he should go because he does not meet your personal superb standards. But we elected the Taoiseach, and why do you persist in trying to override and even ignore the electorate? - Yours, etc,
SHEILA PECK, Dundalk, Co Louth.
Madam, - Over 10 years ago, the Taoiseach congratulated the McCracken tribunal on their excellent work and report on the Dunnes payments to politicians and made the point that: "Our duty is to guard our country and our democratic system from any taint or suspicion of corruption, and to remove any obvious or possible source of danger. While in the terms of the tribunal's report 'no political impropriety' has been shown to have occurred, the acceptance of large gifts or payments or personal benefits in a surreptitious manner or the large-scale evasion of tax and exchange control regulations by even one or two senior serving politicians or members of government is deeply damaging to trust in politics, and a serious breach of it, and every effort must be made that is humanly possible to ensure that it cannot happen again."
Why tolerate the continuance in office of the Taoiseach, given that he admitted accepting large gifts? The political and commenting classes have clearly failed to hold the Taoiseach to his own standards. - Yours, etc,
DÓNAL Ó BROLCHÁIN, Griffith Avenue, Dublin.