PATRICK SEALE might be a writer on Middle East topics, but he knows little about American politics (May 26). If he did, he would not spend time in a vitriolic diatribe against a president who has done just about all that he can because he is working with a Congress, the majority of whom are not of his party and without whose approval he cannot spend money.

IRELAND has lost the genuine, astute and honourable leadership of a fine Taoiseach in his prime, not to the evidence and discernment of the Mahon Tribunal, not to democratic elections, but to the prejudice of the media.