Sir, - It doesn't seem to have occurred to Criostoir O'Flynn (May 4th) that his sneering jibes at Frank McCourt and his wonderful book and the supercilious tone he adopts when referring to his own experience of growing up in Limerick actually confirms what Frank McCourt has said and written about the place. - Yours, etc., Eddie Naughton
Weavers Street, The Coombe, Dublin 8.