Sir, - As a service to your readers, here is the Bertie Ahern guide to neutrality.
If soldiers transit through Shannon in a commercial airliner they are tourists and not really soldiers. and therefore we do not compromise our neutrality.
If you see an American tank with a furry dice on it you are to regard it as a car.
If you witness hundreds of people carrying guns or grenade launchers at our airports, they are not to be regarded as soldiers if they are dressed in civilian clothes. - Yours, etc.,
READ MORE
Ger Dorgan, Ardbeg park, Dublin 5.