Sir, - I note that scientists have discovered the definitive DNA sequencing "map" and "set of instructions" for the make-up of human beings. What a prospect! It will now be possible to (a) crack such inscrutable genetic codes as those of Charlie Haughey, Ray Burke, Padraig Flynn, and (b) explain, for the first time, the mystery that is the Fianna Fail sub-species in general.
But, there is a downside. In this breakthrough, that party of lobotomised political pygmies is included in a promised life expectancy increase for the human race of "several decades"!- Yours, etc.,
Oliver McGrane, Marley Avenue, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16.