29 JANUARY 1972, page 18

Ulster's Clerics

Sir: In their article What the clerics say ' (January 22) either Miss Howard or Mr Fuchs speaks approvingly of the Catholic clergy in N. Ireland because they support political......

Irish Mess

Sir: The inability of Mr Faulkner and his supporters to recognise that the 1920-21 settlement has failed in the north of Ireland • shows that they live in a dreamworld and that......

A Thing Is A Thing

Sir: Mr Henry Adler (Letters, January 22) seems to be saying that we are all thugs, though some thugs are less thuggish than others. A gross over-simplification, but containing......

Peter Hain

Sir: That Mr Gerhard Cohn (January 15) is able to dismiss my letter of December 4 as "nonsense or planned mischief" without reading it serves merely to disclose the incredible......