Sir, - I applaud Carol O'Connor for her letter (September 10th) on the misguided attribution of love as an explanation for the murder of a child.
Perhaps pyschologists or psychiatrists have some more worthy insight, but in my view if the people who commit such deeds wish to make some point, they can do so by ending their own lives without also ending the lives of the children whom they claim to love. To use the word love in this context is obscene. - Yours, etc.,
Gerard Clarke, Stirling Park, Orwell Park, Dublin 14.