Madam, - As a person living on about what Bertie spends weekly on make-up, I am appalled at the salaries paid to our President and head of government - the highest and second highest in the EU respectively (The Irish Times, June 7th). Surely the men of 1916, whom both admire, would turn in their graves if they knew this.
Can both those leaders, who like to portray themselves as so Irish, so "of the people", not take a voluntary cut or forgo future increases until their incomes are on a par with those of the leaders of other EU countries of similar size and population?
- Yours, etc,
BRIAN McCAFFREY, Clifton Crescent, Galway.