Sir, – Anthony Leavy (December 30th) wonders why people were reluctant to "blow the whistle on the reckless abandon" of the Celtic Tiger boom years.
Indeed anyone who did attempt to point out that the boom was unsustainable was promptly accused of being unpatriotic by failing to “put on the green jersey” and told in withering fashion to “stop talking down the economy”. – Yours, etc,
JOHN FAGAN,
Seafield Road,
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Killiney, Co Dublin.