THE women victims of Republican violence seem to haunt Gerry Adams the most. Unlike murdered mother-of- 10, Jean McConville, rape survivor Maíria Cahill cannot be tossed into a shallow grave and forgotten about.

As of today, there are no soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment patrolling streets in the North.

BRIAN McCAFFREY (Irish Examiner letters, May 17) speculates that Home Rule “might have been as good — if not better — than what ensued from 1916”.