Sir, – Now that your economics contributor John FitzGerald has eased off on the number of his “howevers”, I see Fintan O’Toole has tried taking his place with no less than 13 “buts” in his piece on Saturday (“The Irish are living an American dream. Or hallucination. Or delusion”, Opinion & Analysis, November 5th). – Yours, etc,
KIERAN McGOVERN,
Ballinteer,
Dublin 16.