John Bruton’s call for more austerity

Sir, – Might I suggest to John Bruton ("Ireland faces 10 more years of austerity budgets, says Bruton", Home News, May 28th) that the biggest mistake you can make in politics is to preach financial probity to the masses, broken by years of austerity, while you are in receipt of a State pension of €138,000 for the rest of your life? – Yours, etc,

Dr JAMES KEENAN,

Dublin Road,

Drogheda,

Co Louth.