Sir, - It should be sobering to remember that we comprise about 1 per cent of the EU, although some of our public representatives are of a different mind. Strangely enough, it was a Greek named Aesop of Samos who foresaw this condition back in 550 BC. He invented a fable to illustrate it.
He tells us how a frog and his family lived happily on the banks of a muddy stream, until the frog conceived the curious illusion that he was as big as the ox which grazed in in the adjoining field. One day, to show his family how big he had become, he started to blow himself up. Encouraged by the cries of his children, he grew bigger and bigger until suddenly he burst. - Yours, etc.,
Hugo Duffy, Furry Park Road, Killester, Dublin 5.