4 MAY 1996, Page 26

Sir: Sean O'Callaghan provides the most appalling example of complete

abdication of personal responsibility that I have had the ill luck to read in quite a while. Of course he does mention that murder is an obscenity, etc., and further that he can only try and redress the balance — heart-rend- ing stuff to be sure!

Bitterness towards a Church which may or may not have spawned IRA sympathies will not serve to convince anyone of your change of heart.

Take your medicine, Mr O'Callaghan.

Marian Kilcoyne

Killadoon, Westport, Co. Mayo, Republic of Ireland