Sir, – As a 29-year-old emigrant I was delighted to read Michael D Higgins’s recent speech on Ireland’s “intellectual crisis” (Home News, January 26th). It was refreshing to hear a public figure not pander to the public and discuss something fundamentally more urgent than the “current economic situation”.
It gives me hope that I may be able one day to return home to a country where independent thought, intelligent discourse and working together for a shared and better future are the “dominant paradigm” rather than the money- obsessed tiger’s den I escaped in 2007. If Miriam Lord struggled with some of the big words and references I’m sure Wikipedia will sort her out. – Yours, etc,
Sir, – Miriam Lord reports a “paradigm” count of nine in the President’s speech to the great and the good of the NUI (Home News, January 28th). Is he trying to make an example of himself? – Yours, etc,