Madam, - Have words lost all meaning? Your front-page report of May 17th on the tragic deaths of a seven-year-old child and her mother quotes a Garda spokesman as saying that "there are no signs of any foul play".
I for one would not wish to stand in judgment on anyone involved in this tragedy, but for an agency of the State to say that the homicide of a child is not foul beggars belief. - Yours, etc,
SÉ D'ALTON, Palmerston Road, Dublin 6.