Madam, - I wonder what obscure tribal instinct compels Minister for Defence Willie O'Dea to mispronounce the name of the main opposition party. It surely cannot be ignorance; he is an educated man, I presume. Is it, then, some twisted desire to show contempt for the opposition, but which merely displays his own vacuity?
I have no connection with any political party and ask the question out of simple curiosity. - Yours, etc,
MICHAEL JUDGE, Redesdale Road, Mount Merrion, Co Dublin.