SF’s abstentionist MPs can’t serve the voters

SINN Féin Cllr Kieran McCarthy (Irish Examiner letters, April 14) dismisses my proposal (Letters, April 11) that his party should take up their seats at Westminster.

He asserts that SF “has no desire or need to sit in a foreign imperialist parliament” and that “as abstentionist MPs from Westminster, SF representatives have served their constituents well.”

It seems the ‘no surrender’ mentality is alive and well in Cobh.