2 JUNE 1984, Page 19

Why old Reagan went

Sir: Regarding that geriatric warmonger Ronald Wilson Reagan ('Culchies and radicals', 19 May), the reason why his great-grand-father left Ballyporeen was his impregnation of a woman whom he refused to marry. I have that on the authority of my late sister, who lived in County Tipperary.

Patrick J. N. Bury

71 Lansdowne Park, Ball's Bridge, Dublin