In Brief: Carroll . . . Bankers . . . Condescension . . . Obama
- The decision by the Supreme Court regarding the Liam Carroll group of companies has done the State some service. The court has acted correctly. and the Government has not.
Pol o Deorain
Baile atha Cliath
- Swift in his poem 'The Run Upon The Bankers' (1720) on the panic occasioned by the South Sea Bubble, another bubble that burst, foreshadowed what is happening today when he wrote:
Money, the life-blood of the nation,
corrupts and stagnates in the veins,
unless a proper circulation
its motion and its heat maintains.
Plus ca change.
S P J J Fagan
Dublin 14
- Quite apart from overlooking 800 years of history, J F Lambert of Liverpool (Letters, August 11) is indulging in good old English condescension when he recommends that "Eire" should join with "the UK to form a United British Isles independent of the EU". That was tried for 800 years and did not work.
His contention that this country is "increasingly subservient to the European Union" does not stand up. Ireland and the UK were equal members, with 25 other EU democracies, when the Lisbon Treaty was being negotiated. That is in stark contrast to Ireland's subservient position when it was a member of the UK.
A Leavy
Dublin 13
- Tony Allwright (Letters, August 12) claims President Obama "resolutely refuses to release his original birth certificate" in order to refute the "birthers" who claim he is not an American citizen. Mr Obama released his original birth certificate in 2008 to quell claims from the far-right that he was not a natural-born US citizen.
There is a reason conspiracy theories are so easily debunked -- the facts keep getting in the way!
Gary J Byrne
IFSC, Dublin 1
