Madam, - Unprecedented immigration prompts recurring issues of concern.
First, does the Irish state wield any effective control over the unrestricted (unsustainable?) influx? Next, has it lost count of the aggregate non-Irish population?
Last, has Ireland any future as a distinct entity with its own national identity? Are we in fact losing "the thing called a country" (Wolfe Tone)? - Yours, etc,
J.A. BARNWELL, St Patrick's Road, Dublin 9.
