In thrall to the likes of Lowry

Madam, – Fintan O’Toole’s article (Opinion, April 21st) regar-ding Michael Lowry should be compulsory reading for all young …

Madam, – Fintan O’Toole’s article (Opinion, April 21st) regar-ding Michael Lowry should be compulsory reading for all young people, as a warning to what this present generation has allowed to happen: this awful culture of admiring cheats. Until this changes, Ireland will continue its downward slide, and less and less foreign investment will occur. – Yours, etc,

ANN YOUNG,

Killadreenan,

Newcastle,

Co Wicklow.

Madam, – Fintan O’Toole’s column is the best piece of journalism I have read in a long time. Direct, hard-hitting and to the point. It’s about time that we call a spade a spade. Well done Mr O’Toole. We need incisive and courageous journalism now more than ever. – Yours, etc,

CLARE BYRNE,

Castleknock, Dublin 15.

Madam, – Reading Fintan O’Toole’s wonderfully clear piece about Michael Lowry, I felt again the despair I’ve felt all my adult life about political life in this country.

While the shameful atavism displayed in the recent lionising of Lowry persists, whatever its source, there is no hope for a decent politics in this country.

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There is some consolation in the presence of a few sane voices in the media, Mr O’Toole, being one. – Yours, etc,

SEAN HICKEY,

Abbeyville Park,

Sligo.

Madam, – The penny catechism of my youth was harsh in its condemnation of “backbiting, calumny and detraction”. Self-serving journalistic cliches from Fintan O’Toole and your two biased letter-writerss (April 22nd) would have us believe that God has done a U-turn on the subject. I doubt it. – Yours, etc,

SHEILA GRIFFIN,

Blennerville,

Tralee,

Co Kerry.