Madam, - My 11-year-old daughter has criticised my naming her Lucy. She is worried she won't make it on to the Government benches. I hadn't noticed until she pointed it out to me that all three female Ministers and both female Ministers of State are Marys. To top it all, we have a Mary as President and the Taoiseach is married to a Mary.
Co-incidence? - Yours, etc,
MICHAEL McCABE, St Gabriel's, Johnstown Road, Cabinteely, Dublin 18.