Sir, – My American daughter-in-law who lives in Switzerland pays tax to the US. I do not notice any of the enthusiasts for the diaspora vote mentioning the taxation conundrum. Also, we all know that the elephant in the room on the emigrant vote question is how the “Wild Geese” would vote on a border referendum.
My hunch is that they would be inclined to vote Yes for unification without having to live with the day-to-day realities of that vote. Being able to vote for a couple of diaspora TDs is as tenuous as my vote for a university Seanad seat. – Yours, etc,
PADDY McEVOY,
March,
Matt Williams: Take a deep breath and see how Sam Prendergast copes with big Fiji test
New Irish citizens: ‘I hear the racist and xenophobic slurs on the streets. Everything is blamed on immigrants’
Jack Reynor: ‘We were in two minds between eloping or going the whole hog but we got married in Wicklow with about 220 people’
‘I could have gone to California. At this rate, I probably would have raised about half a billion dollars’
Cambridgeshire,
UK.
Sir, – Giving votes to the Irish diaspora could lead to election posters of Mary Lou, Leo and Micheál on poles from Bondi to Boston. With all this talk of climate change, hasn’t the world suffered enough? – Yours, etc,
DAVID CURRAN,
Knocknacarra,
Galway.