Mary Lou should end the posturing

Sir — In her recent article in your paper, Mary Lou McDonald repeatedly used the word ‘‘change’’. She is lucky the election took place well before the tasteless ‘‘state-within-astate’’ funeral her party served up in Belfast for the obsequies of Bobby Storey.

Here was a golden opportunity for Sinn Fein and associates to demonstrate that there has been real change in the agenda of the ‘‘republican’’ movement. That was a change the people, all the people on the island of Ireland — and abroad — would have heartily welcomed. But sadly the needle is still stuck in the same old groove.

It’s quite clear what Ms McDonald has in mind when she speaks of ‘‘change’’. Why not have an end of all this triumphalist posturing, for a change?

Paddy McEvoy, Cambridgeshire, UK