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Wed Oct 02 2024 - 00:04

Sir, – I knew we should have waited until we were in our fifties to have children. – Yours, etc,

DAVID CURRAN,

Knocknacarra,

Galway.

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Sir, – As your readers absorb the astounding figures in reports on Budget 2025, it may assist if the difference between €1 million and €1 billion is converted to time, a concept more familiar to us. One million seconds equates to 12 days and one billion seconds equates to 32 years.

Unfortunately, our politicians can only count in terms of votes. – Yours, etc,

DAVID LOUGHLIN,

Rathmines,

Dublin 6.