Sir, – The recent US media interviews with IDA Ireland's Martin Shanahan and Tourism Ireland's Niall Gibbons have underlined an uncomfortable reality that is so readily ignored at home ("US radio host wants to know if Ireland plans to leave the UK", November 14th). I have had personal experience of this while living abroad in the US and continental Europe. The reality is that the constitutional status of Ireland is not well known or understood outside our shores. – Yours, etc,
BRIAN FOX,
Mount Pleasant,
Washington DC.