Sir - I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincerest and profoundest thanks to those young people who saw fit to stand up for my future, as well as their own, in the recent protest against road-widening at the Glen of the Downs. As the poet Roethke said: "In a dark time the eye begins to see!" Thank God there are some in our society who remain undazzled by the light in the eye of that repulsive tiger whose chops so many of us seem horribly intent on licking. And where do we who ride high on that animals back see fit to put those beautiful people? In jail! - Yours, etc.,
Michael McLoughlin, Kimmage, Dublin 12.