30 SEPTEMBER 1949, Page 14

Sta,—There is an error in Mr. Rawle Knox's article on

Eire in the Spectator of September 23rd. The lady who remarked on the strange goings-on at the Meath Hospital Board election recently was not, in fact, a " defeated Protestant " ; she is a Roman Catholic, and this throws rather a different light on the matter.—Yours faithfully, Cedarmount, Dundrum, Co. Dublin. PHOEBE LEFROY.