Sir, – As a member of the over-50 club, I identified with Rosita Boland's article on this cohort of society in Saturday's Irish Times. Am I right in thinking that an extra zero appeared erroneously in the salary earned by Noel Storey – £3,500 a year – as a messenger boy in the early 1970s ("I smoked a lot of hash, so my adolescence was quite hazy", Weekend, October 11th)? If not a typo, I am either very envious or extremely depressed. My starting salary in 1976 was £1,000! – Yours, etc,
KIERAN McHUGH,
Howth, Dublin 13.
We are happy to confirm that Mr Storey’s recollection was reported accurately.