Sir, - What absolutely disgusts me about all these "revelations" about political corruption (although I suppose that it was always evident to anyone who was in any way aware of the waste and abuse of taxpayers' money and the shocking state of public services) is that the main political parties do not really seem to recognise the utter treason of what their members have done and are still doing. Their main source of worry seems to be the fact that they have been caught and not that they have treated those who elected them with the utmost disdain.
The most frightening aspect of all this is that all the institutions of the State have now been compromised and there appears to be no-one left in whom we can have any confidence. Sinn Fein is now heralding itself as the "antisleaze" party - an idea which would be comical if it wasn't so serious.
I fear that nothing will change until the day that the privileged few who control the mechanisms of power are forced to give back to this country what they have consistently stolen during our 70-odd years of independence.
Nothing will change until the walls of Mountjoy ring with the empty pleadings of corrupt officials. - Yours, etc.,
Cillian Cunnane, Lyons, France.