Sir, – I switched on the sound system in my car just the other day, and listened with deepening sombreness to the malaise that has befallen Ireland. The hospital trolley crisis. The housing crisis. The cost of living rip-off. Security lapses in national institutions. The bleakness of watching the petrol pump clocking up astronomical sums. The impossibility of finding affordable daycare for the children. The gridlock on the M50. And on and on it went.
Was I listening to Drivetime? Not exactly. I’d inserted a CD of Joseph O’Connor’s Drivetime Diaries from May 2008. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. – Yours, etc,
PHILIP W BECK,
Bray,
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