Kenny speech on immigration

Madam, - We would do well to heed Enda Kenny's advice to have a mature and open debate on current immigration. Four hundred years on, we haven't quite come to terms with the last period of mass immigration to this country. - Yours, etc,

JIM COUGHLAN, Strawberry Hill, Cork.

Madam, - I imagine Patrick Nulty (January 30th), although "sophisticated", is new to the concept of irony. He says he finds Pat Rabbitte's support of Enda Kenny's immigration speech "deeply troubling and politically inconsistent".

What would he call the effect of a national youth chairperson publicly undermining (or even insulting) the party leader a few months before a general election? - Yours, etc,

ROBERT J CONDON, Luxembourg.