Numbers game in the Dail

A chara, - Some time ago Charlie McCreevy, the Minister for Finance, dismissed critics of the Government cuts as people who were…

A chara, - Some time ago Charlie McCreevy, the Minister for Finance, dismissed critics of the Government cuts as people who were "numerically challenged".

Would he now agree that the Government, and his party in particular, lost the latest numerical challenge when the Dáil failed to muster a quorum of 20 deputies on Friday last?

Perhaps some of the missing numbers were more interested in a forum than a quorum.

Some of the numerically challenged ones in Charlie's party might point to the common denominator of -rum in both words! - Is mise,

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PADRAIG O'FAOLAIN,

Chapelizod,

Dublin 20.