A chara, – Mary Fogarty (Letters, April 7th) makes a categorical error in defining “poorer” as “having very little money”; the word means “having less money”. Therefore, the luckless billionaires described in “Ireland’s nine billionaires lose one-third of wealth” (Business, April 5th) are, indeed, poorer. – Is mise,
TERRY WALSH,
Cartagena,
Spain.