Madam, - The Dáil is on Christmas holidays until the end of January and politicians do not have their usual stage on which they can entertain and amuse us. As this is pantomime season we are being treated to farce and comedy through the media with Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore playing the lead characters in the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. It is comical to hear them try to alert us to the danger of big, bad Bertie when we remember how they hid in the undergrowth last year when an election was in the offing.
Meanwhile Brian Cowen, his fellow ministers and backbenchers are full of huff and puff, playing the part of the courtiers in The Emperor's New Clothes. They cannot admit that Bertie has been stripped naked by his convoluted explanations of his finances to the Mahon tribunal.
We ordinary citizens are both entertained and bemused by their cries and calls of "Oh yes, he did" and "Oh no, he didn't". I hope they realise that we treat them all as the pack of jokers and drama queens they really are. - Yours, etc,
DAVID HAYES, Bishopstown Avenue, Cork.