Madam, – So Dermot Ahern would like to lend his expertise to the Third World after he retires from the Dáil (“Dermot Ahern to step down at next general election”, Breaking News, November 30th). Well, why go that far?
He and his colleagues, particularly his namesake ex-taoiseach, have saved him the discomfort of travelling. From here on in we can provide him with his very own, self-made Third-World country. That is if that group would allow us membership, so great is our national debt.
But then again, with his capacity for self (and our) deception, he would probably do well in some of the less hostile regions of the world. – Yours, etc,