Double standards?

Madam, - You comment on how "easy it is for a police force and legal system..

Madam, - You comment on how "easy it is for a police force and legal system ... to cast a wide net and draw in the wrong people .... stressing the importance of due process" in your editorial on the Guildford Four (February 12th). However, your paper continues to be 100 per cent convinced that the IRA carried out the Northern Bank robbery, despite the fact that they have had no right to due process as yet. Double standards? - Yours, etc.,

PAUL McATEE,

Palmerstown Park,

Dublin 20.