Sir, - Are we still living in the begrudging, protectionist and Little Ireland middle years of this century?
It seems that our own expensively trained sheep shearers are not able to form themselves into groups and exploit their skills, and in this way finance world trips, in the course of which they may gain a more cosmopolitan outlook, and be prepared to take on any comers, rather than moan about those who get off their backsides and use what skills they have to make a living and see something of the world. - Yours, etc.,
Molesworth Street, Dublin 2.