Sir, – I was, to put it mildly, disappointed with the headline The Irish Times chose to summarise the story of Sean Quinn's settlement regarding future earnings upon the discharge of his bankruptcy: "Sean Quinn to pay €10,000 per year under bankruptcy ruling" (January 12th).
Given the “per year” element of the settlement only extends to two years, may I suggest that a more accurate headline would have been: “State settles with Sean Quinn for €20,000, despite losses to the State of billions of euro, and an insurance levy being paid by hundreds of thousands of people for decades to come.” – Yours, etc,
RONAN PALLISER,
Stepaside,
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Dublin 18.