Madam, - Your Editorial of October 29th outlined your views on the current drama being played out between the Banks and some members of the legal profession, in the High Court.
Many ordinary people find this current episode like an ugly mud wrestling match, where the participants are equally unpleasant, avaricious and undeserving of the slightest modicum of sympathy from the public. These protagonists now represent the typical underbelly or perhaps more appropriately, the rear end of the "Celtic Tiger".
Contrast your Editorial with the small death notice for Fr Roger Kinane of the St Patrick's Missionary Society on the back page of the same edition. The brevity of the notice belies a story of what Ireland was as a nation, long before we started honouring ourselves with feline titles.
In the shortest possible description of a life, the word "Nigeria" understates the years given to the service of others in a distant land. The rest of Fr Kinane's surviving family are listed and include another brother Willie, a missionary priest in America, and a sister Kitty, who is a missionary nun in Peru.
One ordinary family, from the rural heartland of Co Tipperary, who have given so much to others across the world. No fanfares, no press releases or media coverage. A simple plot, under the shadow of Keadeen Mountain in Co Wicklow, will be the only memorial to Fr Roger, as with others of the greatest and most unselfish people this country has ever produced.
I wish the media would tell us more about the lives of these real and worthwhile human beings, whose death notices now appear almost daily, rather than about the likes of those referred to in your Editorial, who strut unashamedly through the corridors of the Four Courts. - Yours, etc,
NICK COY, Lakeside Park, Naas, Co Kildare.