European elections

Madam, - Three points with regard to your front-page report of May 22nd, "Poll predicts Euro elections will provide major surprises…

Madam, - Three points with regard to your front-page report of May 22nd, "Poll predicts Euro elections will provide major surprises".

Polls do not predict; political correspondents do, maybe on the basis of poll findings.

Predictions having been made of surprising results, these results - if they occur - are no longer surprises.

An Irish Examiner/Prime Time poll had already offered a similar finding for the South constituency, though with one significant disparity. Your report did not refer to this - so no surprise there either. - Yours, etc.,

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BRIAN TRENCH,

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Dublin 11