Not the only one

ACCORDING to Jack Lane (Letters, Sept 5) and Dr Martin Mansergh TD (Letters, Sept 6), former Fine Gael leader and agriculture minister James Dillon was the only politician who wanted to involve Ireland in Word War II.

Not so.

In fact, Dillon’s view was shared by an earlier political associate, Frank MacDermot, a member of Dáil Éireann from 1932 to 1937 and Seanad Éireann from 1938 to 1942).

JA Barnwell

5 St Patrick’s Road

Dublin 9