Madam, - Congratulations to the Progressive Democrats on their significant improvement in the recent opinion poll.
This shift from 3 per cent to 4 per cent is surely seismic. Given a sample size of 1,000, the pollsters must have encountered 6.7 extra individuals who indicated an intention to vote PD, slightly more than would squeeze into a Mini but a comfortable fit in a standard people-carrier.
Rather than calling the PDs a political party, would it be unfair to describe them as the country's most powerful lobby group? - Yours, etc,
MICHAEL KENNELLY, Castleisland, Co Kerry.