Wrong to support partition of Spain

Sir — Having in the past found common cause with such regimes as exist in Cuba and Venezuela, the usual ‘useful idiots’ have now aligned themselves with the cause of nationalist separatism in Catalonia whose aim would lead to the partition of Spain.

Notwithstanding the overreaction and heavy-handedness of the Spanish police in dealing with the unlawful referendum, the partition of Spain as a political solution is something we in Ireland should be not be urging or supporting, particularly in view of our own unhappy experience of Irish partition. Mick O’Brien Kilkenny