Madam, - Edward Haughey, the newly nominated Ulster Unionist peer, will not be the first person to serve in the Upper Houses of both the Irish and British parliaments (The Irish Times, May 1st).
On the contrary, peers such as Lord Glenavy and the Earl of Granard served in the Senate of the Irish Free State in the 1920s. - Yours, etc.,
COLIN ARMSTRONG, Village Court, Newtonbreda Road, Belfast 8.