Madam, – Miriam Lord nicely caught those Madam moments in Tuesday's Dáil (Dáil Sketch, April 20th). Now that Peter Nyberg has pinned its fair share of "national speculative mania" blame on the media, among others, maybe before the end of Holy Week The Irish Timescould give a lead in the humility and repentance stakes. No longer Delira Excira of D'Olier Street, more Tarred Tarnished of Tara Street. Your Editorial, "How everything went so wrong", doesn't really attempt to explain why "Nobody (at The Irish Times) shouted Stop".
Rather than delving back into the archives of your first 150 years, perhaps you could ask Joe Joyce to spend the coming month extracting the juiciest pieces from the paper’s Thursday Property Porn Supplement for the decade 1998-2008 – together with any related editorials or Opinion Analysis half-pages. This might remind us why the hordes are now bargain hunting at the Shelbourne, of all unlikely venues, and why we need the Finns to psychoanalyse us. – Yours, etc,