Sir, - "Nigger! Nigger!" a man spewed out, terrorising a young black man. This took place around 7.30 p.m. in front of a line of people outside the hallowed gates of Trinity. No one confronted the man. Drunk or not, homeless or with a home, it is shameful that someone can abuse another person with impunity.
I challenged the man - I recalled my grandmother's experience of being spat upon as a child in 1920s Glasgow; her crime: wearing a green ribbon in her hair. - Yours, etc., Dominic Harkins,
Kiltegan House, Kilcock Road, Maynooth.