Letter: Nobody – not even Mary Lou McDonald – deserves a lecture from Donald Trump

A letter from Walter Ellis:

Tanaiste Simon Harris was in Stormont last week, loftily seeking opinions on how to jointly sort legacy with the UK: a nation that is suing Britain for a shelved conditional amnesty when it has pursued a flagrant de facto amnesty for IRA, wrote News Letter editor Ben Lowry

placeholder image — Tanaiste Simon Harris was in Stormont last week, loftily seeking opinions on how to jointly sort legacy with the UK: a nation that is suing Britain for a shelved conditional amnesty when it has pursued a flagrant de facto amnesty for IRA, wrote News Letter editor Ben Lowry

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Published 29th May 2025, 00:00 BST

Ben Lowry is a good man, whose musings on the weather always cheer me up.

But he is wrong to say (Ireland deserves a Trump-style lecture from the UK given its shameful legacy legal action against Britain, but it never gets it, May 24) that the Republic deserves a "Trump-style" lecture from the UK.

Nobody – not even Mary Lou McDonald – deserves a lecture from Donald Trump. The man is a monster.

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Good news, though, about the Strand Picture House transformation (A star is reborn: £6.5million transformation of Belfast’s Art Deco Strand revealed in stunning first look, May 28).

Walter Ellis, Plusquellec, France

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