Sir, - On the same day that you published your supplement on EU Structural Funds (September 16th) it ill served Terence Ferry of Dublin 8 to say that "grant-aiding has been the curse of Donegal". What has been the curse of Donegal has been the fact that successive governments have been unable to get Dublin snouts to leave adequate EU funds in the trough to provide a modern transport system to places no further from Dublin than Manchester is from London.
Could I perhaps suggest that rather than disdain grant-aiding, Dubliners should be replacing Nelson's Pillar with one in honour of the one man whose efforts indisputably led to the gravy-train on which some of them have thrived since 1973, namely Edward Heath. Sir Edward was also 25 years ahead of his time on Northern Ireland, though his efforts in that arena were strongly resisted by Ian Paisley who, like it or not, has been unquestionably "the most important Irish churchman of the late 20th century" rather than the historical-footnote aspirants proposed by other correspondents. - Yours, etc., Kevin O'Sullivan,
Ballyraine Park,
Letterkenny,
Co Donegal.