Sir, – Pádraig McCarthy objects to the military aspects involved in the removal of Queen Elizabeth’s coffin from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall (Letters, September 16th).
Mr McCarthy failed to notice that the military accompanying the cortege did so with their armaments reversed in a ceremonial sign of peace: a point which was made several time by the commentators. – Yours, etc,
KEVIN O’SULLIVAN,
Letterkenny,
Co Donegal.
Sir, – With, needless to remark, due respect to the late Queen Elizabeth, what a dreadful waste of money having thousands of floral tributes piled high everywhere, with those dreadful plastic wrappers. – Yours, etc,
TOM GILSENAN,
Beaumont,
Dublin 9.
Sir, – Bearing in mind the late Queen Elizabeth’s courage on her visit here in 2011, where she shook hands with Martin McGuinness, would it be too much to expect the deep tribalism in the North to be put aside once and for all?
A quid pro quo of the Northern Assembly being restarted might go hand in hand with a certain political party finally taking up its seats in Westminster.
Surely a fitting tribute to a queen who genuinely cared for all peoples on these islands and understood the deep ties that bind. – Yours, etc,
KEVIN NEWMAN,
Brussels.