NUALA AHERN MEP,
Sir, - With reference to your constituency analysis for the forthcoming Dáil election, it seems strange that you completely failed to mention the Green Party candidate Councillor Deirdre de Burca. She has a high profile in Wicklow on the question of the illegal dumping. She was also active on the question of waste privatisation where she took a case to the High Court.
A judicial review was made in November 2000 before Judge Andreas Ó Cuív and an imminent judgment is awaited in this important case.
You also only referred in passing to deputy Green Party leader Councillor Mary White in Carlow/Kilkenny who is causing considerable anxiety in that constituency to long-established parties.
I take it as a good omen for their election that you have dealt with both candidates dismissively, as I myself was subject to similar treatment in two elections to the European Parliament. In both elections although I was standing third in the polls your analysts predicted that I would fail to be elected. Is this a subliminal prejudice against women in rural areas? Is Dublin 4 convinced that "culchies" are too ignorant to vote for radical women?
I hope that in this forthcoming election you will be made to eat your words again. - Yours, etc.,
NUALA AHERN MEP, Greystones, Co Wicklow.