Sir, - Welcome to post-Christian Ireland, courtesy of the PD/FF Coalition, that amalgam of the greedy and the supine. At a time of unprecedented resources they give three times as much to the haves as to the have-nots. Myopic Mary and Blind Bertie cannot see that an investment now in the alleviation of poverty and exclusion would be repaid a hundredfold in the future by less expenditure on the consequences of crime. Talk about the blind leading the blind! Unfortunately they are dragging the rest of us into the ditch with them. - Yours, etc.,
Brendan Burke, Millview Lawns, Malahide, Co Dublin.