Article ignored contribution to Ireland made by men like Collins

I WAS quite taken aback by Peter Levy’s column headlined ‘Michael Collins was no lost leader’ (County supplement, October 23).

Mr Levy offered a rather cavalier review of who Michael Collins was and what he meant to Ireland.

Let me state the obvious, that in dying at age 32, at the height of his personal, professional, and physical powers, meant his personal faults and shortcomings, whatever they might have been, never had the opportunity to become part of his public persona.