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A chara, – Met Éireann is very happy to forecast and report on our spell of glorious weather. But it does not claim to have caused it.

Could not the European Central Bank follow its example and give up the nonsense of claiming that its interest rate increases caused world energy and food prices and therefore inflation to drop? – Yours, etc,

BRENDAN RYAN,

Montenotte,

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