Sir, – The story of the wild hogs running rampant in the US (“Plague of wild pigs has US authorities squealing”, Breaking News, August 24th) was fertile ground for alliterative cliches (“pig purge”) and porcine double entendres but the claim that they can “run at 140 km/hr” surely took home the bacon for the biggest porkie in the article. Running at that speed they’d practically be airborne. – Yours, etc,
MICHAEL COYLE,
Foxrock Green, Dublin 18.