Sir, – You have reached a new level of vacuity and irrelevance with your headline “Have young people of Ireland been left to carry the can for the mistakes of their elders?” (Opinion, September 28th). Of course they have, and it has always been thus. We have the recent example of two world wars, child abuse, poverty and emigration in the 1940s and 1950s due to economic mismanagement, to pick a few instances at random.
What would be more useful would be an examination of how neo-liberal capitalism and social democracy have both broken down and left us with an elite of cosseted senior public servants (including politicians) and unregulated tax-evaders and shysters, widening inequality and an effete, chattering journalist class. – Yours, etc,