Sir, – I mostly enjoy reading my Irish Times every day. I read the sports pages on Mondays and get a lift if my county hurling team (Waterford) has done well, or, on other days, if Irish sports people have excelled internationally. I turn to the deaths column and note with relief that my name does not feature. The international news leaves me in a state of bemusement at the follies of mankind. And then I turn to the letters page and depression descends.
Is it your predilection for the complainers and knockers, or are we, as a society, hard put to see the good rather than the bad, the honest rather than the dishonest, or are we, as is often suggested, simply a nation of begrudgers?
Whichever is the case, I think I will skip to the television and radio page in future. – Yours, etc,
GERRY MAHER,
Duncormick ,
Co Wexford.