We don’t need yarns about the past to maintain good relations now

I THINK it is not very becoming for an acclaimed legislator, Dr Martin Mansergh TD, to be so gratuitously rude to another correspondent, Jack Lane who put his case on Elizabeth Bowen’s reports on World War II in a very scholarly and objective manner (Letters, September 17).

Dr Mansergh, on the other hand, is now relying on a private letter from Prof Brian Girvin to make his case (Letters, September 26).

Apparently, Prof Girvin made a case to Dr Mansergh that he omitted to make in his book on the subject!