Sir, – I couldn’t agree more with letter writer Eamonn Dillon (Letters, July 8th) when he asks: “How many university students paid more than €1,000 on holidays in Spain or Greece this year?”
I know of students who possess phones, use public transport, demand to sleep in a bed at night and waste €8,000 to €12,000 a year on student accommodation, work nights, weekends and during their holidays to earn the minimum wage (and possibly pay tax), socialise occasionally – and yes, even eat food and buy clothes – and otherwise carelessly waste money they could save for a university education. God help us.
What will we ever do with the spendthrift youth of today? – Yours, etc,
TOMÁS FINN,
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Co Galway.
