Sir, - The lack of balance in Kevin Myers's Irishman's Diary of October 9th is truly deplorable. So too are the pejorative terms he uses to depict what he calls "the self-appointed guardians of public morality". Words like "cretins", "sanctimonious", "censoriousness", "prigs in authority" and "Pooterish busybodies from Dublin Corporation" clearly illustrate the lopsided slant of his article.
Anyone daring to call Mr Myers a "self-appointed guardian of public immorality" would, naturally, provoke a valid cry of indignation. So how can he justify pillorying people who may have a legitimate concern about our young people, who are so often the target of the lucrative sex industry.
Nobody wants to return to the mythical "Holy Ireland", even though parents then didn't lie awake worrying - with good reason - about the safety of "adult" children out at night. What a pity that the "sexually libertarian Ireland" Mr Myers defends so enthusiastically brings with it a marked increase in murders, attacks of all kinds, drugs, rapes, broken homes, male suicides and women missing without trace. So much for his "truth that the rest of us now take for granted". - Yours, etc.,
Marie Corr, Castle Park, Sandymount, Dublin 4.