Bevy of advisers for new Government

Madam, – Your Editorial (April 22nd) states that “the promise of future hope is difficult for many to sustain in the present…

Madam, – Your Editorial (April 22nd) states that “the promise of future hope is difficult for many to sustain in the present economic crisis” .

However, one borders on despair when one reads under your headline of “Advisers appointed to serve Ministers” (Home News, same day) of the grand bevy of so-called “advisers” and hangers-on which we as an electorate expected to disappear in these grim times, when even the ground beneath our feet may be sold away to finance our debts. – Yours, etc,

BRENDAN BUTLER,

The Moorings,

Malahide, Co Dublin.