Madam, - It seems that David Rolfe (December 21st), while pragmatic and concerned, entirely misses the most significant aspect of the so-called Mayo gas field.
It is neither Mayo's, nor Ireland's gas, as the resource was handed over to a multinational company by a former Minister who is known to have taken bribes while a member of Charles Haughey's cabinet. Secondly, Ireland imports no gas from Russia, but from a creaking and thinly stretched European network.
I write from Moscow where the price of gas reliably heating the city is subsidised by profits accruing from gas exports. Another opportunity missed by a "patriot devoted to the betterment of his countrymen" and his obedient cronies. - Yours, etc,
IVOR CROTTY, Resources Editor, Russia Profile, Moscow, Russia.