Madam, - With reference to the ongoing exchange between your distinguished columnist Fintan O'Toole and Marc Coleman, economist of the Sunday Independent and Newstalk, I used to describe economists as being akin to "bookies in suits".
For this I now humbly ask forgiveness as it was grossly disrespectful of me. Bookies' predictions are consistently accurate.- Yours, etc,
RICHARD FORD, Mount Avenue, Dundalk, Co Louth.