Sir, - Case History A: A young South American girl doing three jobs (waitressing and house-cleaning) to send money home to her handicapped mother.
Case History B : A married couple, both working, and sending home all they can to support their families in the Philippines.
If there is a familiar ring to these stories it is because our grandparents were doing exactly the same thing a hundred years ago. We were, and have remained, justly proud of their pious self-sacrifice. Why, in the name of God, are we critical and unfriendly to these people among us now? - Yours etc.,
Gerry O'Malley, Old Conna Village, Bray, Co Wicklow.