A chara, – Reading Dominic Coyle’s Q&A (Business, April 4th) on which mortgage to pay down first, the tracker or the variable, I was reminded of the quandary of the Percy French character faced with which McBreen daughter to marry, the pretty or the plain. There too, the price of stock had to be factored in, livestock in his case, and the outcome is a salutary lesson in the vagaries of economic forecasting. – Is mise,
ANTOINE Ó COILEÁIN,
Baile Átha Cliath 6.