Céad míle fáilte to a figurehead queen

THE comments by David Roberts and Seamus Kearney on the proposed royal visit (Letters, June 25) are sad and to be deplored.

I feel they do not reflect the opinions of the vast majority of our people. Queen Elizabeth is merely a figurehead who has little real power and acts on the advice of parliament in much the same way as our president does.

So when Tony Blair apologised for any deficiencies of the then British government in relation to the Great Famine, and latterly when David Cameron apologised for Bloody Sunday, we had the elected voices of the British people speaking.