Madam, - The Taoiseach recently launched a programme of activities to commemorate the Flight of the Earls - an event that left ordinary Irish people without their so-called "leaders", who never came back.
Every year, our present-day "leaders" re-enact a modern version of their flight - to advertise Ireland abroad on Patrick's day. Unfortunately they do come back.
When abroad, these Earls of Ireland should be questioned about their "cultural vandalism" as they fast-track the destruction of Tara and, like the snakes banished from Ireland by Patrick, slither away. - Yours, etc,
MUIREANN NÍ BHROLCHÁIN,
Laurence Avenue,
Maynooth,
Co Kildare.