A chara, – Walking through Stuttgart on Sunday, I noticed a large queue of people standing patiently, indeed cheerfully, outside an important-looking building. My German partner asked them what they were queueing for. The answer was straightforward. There was a presidential election in Romania, and they were queueing to register their votes. It’s too difficult for Ireland to manage votes for its emigrants, but not for our continental neighbours, it seems. – Is mise,
JOHN KENNEDY,
Düsseldorf,
Germany.