Court will not have power to suspend rights

I WISH to respond to the letter headlined ‘We may be a province once again’ from Brian Flanagan (Irish Examiner, August 18).

The purpose of my letter published by the Irish Examiner on July 29 was not to interfere in the debate in Ireland on the EU constitution but to clarify for your readers aspects of the text which Mr Flanagan apparently misunderstood in his earlier letter.

His latest correspondence goes over much the same ground and does not require further comment from me, with the exception of the attack he has now launched on the European Court of Justice, to which he ascribes a number of imagined powers.