Sir, - Forgive me for saying this, but your edition of June 7th bore more resemblance to a horror comic than to a newspaper. Your cover was adorned with a picture of Peter Logan, who was severely injured in an attack in which his brother was killed, and all for £45. However, your own coverage of this incident, and of the outrage felt by the populace at large, would make further comment on my part superfluous.
I wonder is the same outrage felt for the octogenarian Blackall sisters, who, after a lifetime living in their family home, have now been evicted? While I accept that this case has been through the exhaustive process of the law of the land, and that the law has been upheld, I must nevertheless pose the question, has justice been done? Where are the Christian ethics in casting two elderly and frail ladies out on the street, virtually penniless after legal costs have been settled? Is respect for the elderly, one of the cornerstones of Irish life in the not-so-good old days, to be the latest casualty in our new Celtic Tiger culture?
I urge Mrs Iris Blackall to cast family differences aside and let the two ladies live out their lives in Marino Park. God knows, she won't have that long to wait before she can fully reap the benefits of her husband's bequest. And I'm quite sure that it would make scarcely any difference to the learned members of the legal profession if, in the interests of humanity, they were to waive their fees on this occasion.
By so doing, they would turn what is now a hollow victory, into a sound, ethical one. - Yours, etc.,
D.K. Henderson, Castle Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin 3.