Sir, - Dr Aidan Rankin, asks, quite reasonably in my view, "where are the Irish Euro-sceptics?" May I, as one premature Euro-sceptic from the days of the 1975 Wilson referendum to withdraw the United Kingdom from the then Common Market, diffidently reply?
We Euro-sceptics are, in Ireland, exactly where we have always been throughout the New European Empire - marginalised, denied the media, derided and ignored.
Despite half-a-dozen letters from me to your paper denouncing the "euro" from before the Amsterdam treaty, not one made the Letters page. So much for freedom of speech and press in "Festung Europa".
By the way, has anyone noticed that as the exchange value of the euro plummeted over recent months, the rate of inflation has skyrocketed? Could the two by any chance be related? I'm only asking. - Yours, etc.,
Herb Meyer, Seacrest Barna Road, Galway.