Madam, - I refer to the report in your edition of October 22 on remarks made by Master of the High Court Edmund Honohan. He is quoted as saying that younger members of the legal profession often lack a sense of idealism or moral outrage. Referring to the current issue of overcharging of abuse victims, the master is quoted as saying that this particular cancer remained in the profession because of solicitors' and barristers' "want of outrage". A striking phrase.
However, it made me wonder if the problem may not lie so much with what is absent (pretty much unprovable, anyway) but with what could be manifestly present. With the greatest respect to the master, is not a simpler explanation for this particular cancer not so much the absence of outrage as the presence of greed? - Yours etc,
JAMES DOHERTY, Coolraine Estate, Limerick.