Madam, - I note without pleasure the reply from Robert Hagin-Meade (February 26th) to my letter of February 23rd.
He is worried about us all spying on each other, but are we not to aid in the enforcement of the law of the land? Surely laws are the expression of a free society's rules, entered into in the interest of the common good? There can be no clearer case for rules to protect the common good than Mr Martin's courageous new law.
Mr Hagin-Meade would seem to believe that in the interest of civil liberties, a minority should be able to threaten the health of us all. It is a duty in a democracy to aid in the upholding of the law. Real civil liberty is just that simple.
Would Mr Hagin-Meade not report a mugging he witnessed? - Yours, etc.,
DARACH CORCORAN, Spencer Street, Castlebar, Co Mayo.