Sir, - I find it somewhat disturbing to read that prospective Presidential candidate Mrs. Maire Geoghegan-Quinn is proposing to sue the Government (that is to say, us) for damages in consequence of a sprained ankle incurred in Government Buildings at the latter end of a Fianna Fail office party. Were she to be successful in her presidential aspirations, this thoroughly undignified trial would come up sometime in the middle of her term of office, to the great amusement of the popular press of Europe, and indeed the world.
But there are more alarming prospects still. The Aras, as we know, is quite an old house, and there are no doubt many irregularities in its various floor surfaces. Happily Mrs Robinson has escaped serious injury so far during her seven years' incumbency, but she is rather lighter on her feet, I think, than Mrs Geoghegan-Quinn. There might be a long series of such injury suits in prospect, stretching well into the next century.
The voters should take this into consideration. - Yours, etc.,
John Dillon,
Baily, Co. Dublin.