Are gardaí deployed to Bellanaboy more urgently needed where real crime exists?

BARRY WALSH (Irish Examiner letters, November 21) misinterpreted my recent letter on garda violence at Bellanaboy in Co Mayo (Irish Examiner, November 16).

In the first instance, I didn’t realise it was a condition of having a personal opinion published in a national newspaper that one’s party political affiliation or preference must be declared to the editor.

I imagine that at least 80% of letter writers to our national daily papers come from people with some political affiliation or other.