Sir, - So Bertie Ahern has awarded himself an increase of £26,000 a year or almost £500 a week. This is the same "statesman" who accused nurses looking for a fair wage as seeking to undermine the national economy. Only two weeks ago, he had the brass neck to tell us that the teachers were engaging in a crusade against the Government.
His mentor Charles J. Haughey had the undoubted capacity to rip off the Irish public while our backs were turned.
Bertie, "the most cunning and devious of them all", can do it while we are safe in his Teflon embrace! What are we? A nation of village idiots? - Yours, etc.,
Manus Brennan, Drumkeeghan, Donegal Town.