Sharing pain of economic crisis

Madam, – Orna Mulcahy (Opinion, October 9th) writes: “There is no point in talking about the Denis O’Briens and the Dermot Desmonds in this context, or fat cat bankers. Their numbers are insignificant.” The top 1 per cent of the Irish population owns 20 per cent of the nation’s wealth: these are significant numbers. – Yours, etc,

TERESA MURRAY,

The Sweepstakes,

Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.