SIR – How can Graham Hoyle (Letters, March 30) compare Libya’s supplying of weapons to the IRA, and our support today of the Libyan rebels today?

The UN did not support Libya’s intervention in the UK but does support our and others’ intervention – including the Arab League’s – in Libya, which is suffering the whims of its despotic leader.

To compare his treatment of his people with our Government’s treatment of the citizens of Ulster is ridiculous. Philip Bird Nab Wood Terrace, Shipley