A chara, - Apropos Eamon de Valera's statement (letters, December 14th) that only 165 shareholders voted - either personally or by proxy - at the recent AGM, can somebody tell me what happened to the shareholdings of the thousands of small investors both Irish/American and Irish whose contributions helped to set up the Irish Press, as a nationalist newspaper, in 1931? - Le meas,
Ath an Ghainimh, Co Atha Cliath.