Madam - Last Friday's edition featured a three-quarter-page report on the bridge collapse in Minneapolis in which an estimated five people lost their lives. On the same day, the deaths of at least 100 people in a train crash occupies two paragraphs under "In Short". Is life really cheaper in the third world? - Yours, etc,
JAMES ROSSITER, Ballycrane, Castlebridge, Co Wexford.