Madam, - With reference to the advertisement in your paper on Monday March 1st, which states that 81 per cent of your readers are in the ABC1 bracket (i.e. those with a high level of disposable income), I would assume this includes tribunal barristers, offshore account holders, brown envelope recipients and drug barons.
As a member of the remaining 19 percent (with no disposable income) I am dismayed that such an advertisement should appear in what I have heretofore regarded as a quality newspaper not usually given to this sort of snobbery.
I have to remind you that 19 per cent is quite a large slice of your readership and should not be trifled with in such a condescending manner. - Yours, etc,
JOE HARGROVE, Shandra, Portarlington, Co Offaly.