Sir, - I wonder if Oliver Goldsmith had in mind Ireland, in the dying years of the second millennium, when he penned the lines:
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
This idle thought is written without prejudice and is not intended to reflect adversely on any Taoisigh, Dail deputies, Ministers, European Commissioners, tribunal lawyers, bishops, county councillors, property developers, supermarket owners, accountants, financial advisers, bankers or deaf soldiers.
After all, where would we be without them? -Yours, etc., Eamon Sweeney,
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South Hill, Dartry, Dublin 6.