Sir, – Can I come to live in Billy Ryle’s Ireland, please (Letters, “Let the US keep Black Friday”, November 26)?
A fantastical land where parasitical capitalists don’t begin their exploitative propaganda campaigns before the last little witch has boarded her broom with a bag full of poison on board.
Where dead-eyed drunkards in festive jumpers don't urinate spontaneously in my general direction. Where the crassly commercial, disgustingly smug Late Late Toy Show isn't celebrated as a cultural occasion of note. Where, apparently, "the Irish way of celebrating Christmas" is "anchored in core values of friendship, community, sharing and spirituality". Is it in Tralee? Is it, really?
– Yours, etc,
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DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
Pouladuff Road,
Cork.