Madam, - I was taken aback to read that Sinn Féin could not find a ministerial role for Mary Lou McDonald in the new Northern assembly.
Surely she was entitled to, at least, a junior ministry of bi-location, as she seems to pop up everywhere. She was last spotted sitting between Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness at last week's historic meeting at Stormont.
I would respectfully suggest that President McAleese should be careful not to be upstaged by the lovely Mary Lou when Queen Elizabeth comes to call, as no doubt she will, now that sanity has returned to the country. - Yours, etc,
BRENDAN M REDMOND, Hazelbrook Road, Dublin 6W.