Sir, – Ronan Farren (June 23rd) states that the proposed price increase "will affect the proverbial little old lady who carefully buys one bottle of wine a week".
Unfortunately the nub of the problem is that the little old lady in question does not have a paid-for lobby group, unlike other interested parties such as the sports industry, to convince Ministers to exempt her from the new legislation. – Yours, etc,
PAUL COMERTON,
Carrick-On-Shannon,
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Co Leitrim.