27 APRIL 1996, page 24

Sir: A Little Over Six Months Ago I Urged Metropolitan

commentators to give North- ern Ireland's Protestants the same benefit of the doubt as these commentators gener- ally accord to the Catholics. This provoked an instant response......

Perfumed Garden

Sir: I would not normally wish to prolong correspondence over what you concede (Leader, 13 April) was a misprint. However, you have, whether intentionally or not, mis-......

Not Good Enough

Sir: Surprise, surprise, the very day follow- ing publication of my letter (20 April), I received a response from the police to my complaint, but not one which by any stretch of......

Mary Ellen Synon

Dublin......

The Sins Of The Fathers

Sir: There is an element of truth beyond autobiography in Sean O'Callaghan's arti- cle on the Irish Catholic Church, (`Murder with the Fathers' help', 20 April). Over the past......

Letters Sour Grapes

Sir: Philip Hensher (`Have you seen this?', 20 April) protests too much. From his account of his sacking as a House of Com- mons clerk, you would have thought he had been......