Madam, - It would be entirely unfair for Fianna Fáil to expel Beverly Cooper-Flynn for bringing the party into disrepute. After all, as Chief Justice Keane observed, you can't suffer damage to your good name if you don't have one in the first place. - Yours, etc.,
MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN,
Dublin 14.
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Madam, - I heard on the radio that some of Ms Cooper-Flynn's party colleagues who may not have particularly liked her had admired her "strong backbone" in appealing the earlier High Court decision against her to the Supreme Court.
At what point does a strong backbone become a brass neck? - Yours, etc.,
PETER SHEARER,
Greenhill Road,
Wicklow.