Madam, - More than 200 years ago, Adam Smith observed that "people of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
In light of recent events, should we not be recommending that the Licensed Vintners' Association and their friends in Fianna Fáil read some Smith? - Yours, etc,
GRAHAM NEARY, Mount Merrion, Co Dublin.