WHILE agreeing with your editorial comment (LET, March 29), especially the first part on pollution, I disagree with the piece on the IRA.

The recent killings were started by the nationalists, yet they are the ones who want the IRA to disarm. I would like both sides to disarm. But that is what has caused the trouble all these years.

GORDON PADGETT, Bridgewater Court, Blackburn.

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