Sir, I don't think Kevin Myers is quite right (Irishman's Diary, December 19th) when hem attributes the dislike of the Dunne family to their "frank vulgarity". For myself, and I suspect many others, I don't give a hoot how much gold Margaret Heffernan festoons herself with, or anything else, but I do give a hoot about how their workers are treated. Since the days of the strike over South African goods I have not bought so much as a grapefruit in Dunnes, nor do I intend to in the future, given their later antics over low pay and zero hour working arrangements.
Events like those we have recently seen show quite clearly the priorities of the Dunnes and probably many others like them. I suggest that while the needs of their friends continue to be given what appears to be more sympathetic treatment than the needs of their workforce, they will continue to attract the visceral dislike to which Kevin Myers refers. Yours, etc.,
Schull Books, Ballydehob, Co. Cork.