24 OCTOBER 1970, Page 16

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

From: Brian Inglis, B. Joseph, Pere- grine Worsthorne, Bernard Levin, William Sansom, Patrick Cosgrove, Harry J. T. Blackwood, M. T. Bremridge, J. Reilly, F. P. M. Cook, Ralph Edwards, David Meredith, S. F. Hagan, Margaret Nosek, Godfrey Carter, Marjorie Green, Joseph Dray, Hugh Sykes.

The Irish mess

Sir: 'This Irish mess', you say, is the Irish fault; and sooner or later Irishmen will have to mend the fault. and Irishmen will have to clear up the mess'. All right, then: why not get out, and leave them to it?