Sir, – Many years ago I received a Christmas card from my local TD, a man who would in due course become a government minister. My immediate reaction on receiving it was, why not send one to him? So I sent one. Within a week I received no fewer than four more identical cards, two of them signed by the TD himself, a third with his wife’s name beside his, and the fourth with no signature, presumably sent by his secretary. And so I finished up with five. And then I gave up. – Yours, etc,
CECIL MILLS,
Monkstown,
Co Dublin.