A chara, - So Bertie Ahern assures us The Irish Times, December 20th) that "if the issue of EU common defence, involving a mutual defence commitment by Ireland, were to arise in the future, it would be put to the people in a referendum."
Vide PfP, that assurance, from that man, isn't worth the paper it's written on. - Is mise,
Maura Harrington, Doohoma, Ballina, Co Mayo.