A chara, - The blind hatred for Charles Haughey and the blinding ignorance generated by it is gloriously typified by Desmond Fitzgerald (July 13th).
In attempting to assign credit for the Celtic Tiger, Mr Fitzgerald quite rightly suggests that some praise is due to Alan Dukes and his patriotic support for Mr Haughey's policies and decisions which rescued the country's economy and laid the basis for the prosperity which followed. However, not just equal credit, not just less credit, but no credit at all should go to Mr Haughey himself - as if Mr Dukes had somehow governed vicariously from the Opposition benches!
Worse still, he writes that it "beggars belief that Bertie Ahern has the gall" to suggest any such credit - strong words indeed, even if they have neither sense nor logic.
Mr Fitzgerald is obviously another one of your frenzied correspondents who cannot bear the fact that the excellent Haughey TV series actually had the temerity to show both sides of the story and leave the viewer to make up his mind. In their opinion, only the venomously anti-Haughey views of the likes of Des O'Malley and Martin O'Donohoe - still bitter 20 years on - should have been aired, and the inclusion of the former Taoiseach's family and friends is some form of heretical propaganda likely to destroy history and warp the minds of the nation.
Do they think we're all fools? - Is mise,
DAVID CARROLL,
Castle Gate,
Dublin 2.