Sir, - Kevin Myers depicts the late Captain John Feehan as a hero-worshipper of Charles J. Haughey (July 11th) based on his book, Operation Brogue (1984). He then adds in gross bad taste a reference to the fact (if it is a fact), that Mr Haughey's present Senior Counsel is the son of a man who served in Britain's SAS, a nexus that would be denounced by Captain Feehan, were he alive today, as evidence of a British antiHaughey plot.
Capt Feehan did allege an antiHaughey plot by various British agencies in Operation Brogue, but when he realised later that Mr Haughey's anti-British posturing (when he was in Opposition) was insincere and fraudulent and designed only to get him back into power, he denounced him as a collaborator with the British occupation in a second book entitled An Apology to the Irish People (1988). That book disowned the arguments advanced in Operation Brogue and accused Mr Haughey of betraying the Northern nationalists and of deceiving those in the 26 Counties who had voted him back into office. - Yours, etc., CIARAN Mac an AILI,
Blackrock,
Co Dublin.