Sir, – Perhaps the savage murder of Det Garda Donohoe will convince our rulers that the police and defence forces, whose members put their lives on the line to protect the rest of us, are a special case and merit different treatment to the remainder of the public service.
Then again, perhaps not.
Alan Shatter, who, wearing his Defence hat recently completed the emasculation of the Army, seems hell-bent on reducing both the resources and the employment conditions of the Garda Síochána. Our political Bourbons, who despite recent cosmetic changes are still among the most highly paid on Earth, seem to know the price of everything and the value of nothing – and they can always blame it on the troika! – Yours, etc,