Sir, - If the saying "ignorance is bliss" has any validity, then Patricia McMahon's knowledge of living in Northern Ireland (August 17th) must make her a very happy person indeed!
The image of "Catholic, Protestant and children of other faiths" playing "happily together" here is frankly risible. Integrated housing here would be an excellent idea, but we hear nothing of it.
The prognosis that schools here, if integrated, will create a new Utopia is simply wrong. As a retired teacher of 30 years' experience, I find her assertion that I, or any of my teacher colleagues in any sector, taught hatred to anyone, offensive. - Yours, etc.,
William J. Brown, Hatmore Park, Derry.