Madam, - I heard the president of the Irish Hospital Consultants' Association say that younger doctors should think of their long-term careers if they took up one of the new posts the IHCA is blocking.
If this had been said in a thick, working class Dublin accent by a union leader for manual workers, we would have heard uproar about 1970s-style, crypto-Marxist, Arthur Scargill-like tactics.
The closed shop is the closed shop, whether the accent is posh or proletarian. - Yours, etc,
STEPHEN BOYLE, Dungarvan, Co Kilkenny.