A helping hand for a bookmaker

Madam, – Now that Celtic Bookmakers has gone belly-up, I presume the Government will wade in over the next few days with an …

Madam, – Now that Celtic Bookmakers has gone belly-up, I presume the Government will wade in over the next few days with an unconditional open-ended rescue package for it. This was, after all, what the Government did for every other large-scale gambling institution which went bust in this country over the past few years, was it not? – Yours, etc,

Dr JOSEPH QUINN,

Ballybranagan,

Kinvara,

Co Galway.