Non-national a non-term

THE ‘non-nationals’ referred to in your editorial (Irish Examiner, August 25) are all nationals of some country.

More accurate and respectful terms are ‘foreign citizens’ or ‘foreign nationals’. Even ‘non-Irish citizens’ or ‘non-Irish nationals’ would be preferable to the incorrect term so widely used in Ireland today.

My Irish passport shows that I’m an Irish citizen. I’ve always been treated as such in the countries I’ve lived in or visited, never as a ‘non-national’.

Fr Seán Coyle

San Columbano

PO Box 588

6100 Bacolod City

Philippines