Sir, - Whose lips could fail to curl at the reaction of the politicians and, especially, the party leaders, to the disclosures at the Flood Tribunal? What did they and, especially, their "illustrious" predecessors do when the shenanigans were current? I, an uninformed member of the public, was sufficiently suspicious to withdraw my vote from all three major parties. The parties and their leaders, however, infinitely better informed, had no difficulty in reconciling themselves to suspicion as long as its public substantiation was sufficiently remote.
Let us hear no nonsense about benefit of the doubt, innocence unless guilt is proven, etc. Doubt about anyone in a position of trust in control of my money is a doubt of which I demand the benefit. - Yours, etc.,
Frank Farrell, Lakelands Close, Stillorgan, Co Dublin.