Sir, – In reference to your obituary column in Saturday’s Irish Times: poster-boy banker with semi-detached relationship with ethics, as you state, receives four written columns.
While a life devoted to serving the Irish people with personal courage receives two written columns. – Yours, etc,
TOM MEAGHER,
Athlone,
Co Westmeath.
Sir , – Sadly we don’t need Global Trends 2021 to tell us what we have become (Weekend Review, November 13th). Your obituaries page on the same day does the job with chilling efficiency.
Lavishly illustrated with a roguish photograph, exuding his “clubbable (whatever that means?) relaxed, warm bonhomie”, Seánie Fitzpatrick, disgraced banker and wrecker of homes, businesses and lives, dominates three quarters of a page. Pushed into the margins is the “significant political impact both sides of the Border” figure of courageous and diligent Austin Currie.
Lunatics and asylums come to mind, anyone?
– Yours, etc,
KIERAN FAGAN,
Killiney, Co Dublin.
Sir, – In the near full page obituary of Seán Fitzpatrick, there is no mention of a Cavan ex-billionaire whose companies were inextricably linked to Anglo Irish Bank.
Can I presume that same Cavan ex-billionaire has now successfully “de-listed” from The Irish Times as well as from Google? – Yours, etc,
COLIN O’REGAN,
Lucan,
Co Dublin.