Pre-tax profits at the firm that operates the dot.ie internet domain name registry decreased by 24% to €253,462, last year, in spite of revenues increasing by 5%.

YOUR columnist Noel Whelan (Irish Examiner, July 7) is right to point out that Ireland has been singled out for praise by Tom Friedman, one of the world’s most famous neo-liberal advocates.

In the five years that Martha Lane Fox has spent at the helm of lastminute.com she has earned a fortune, lost much of it and climbed out of the wreckage of the dot.com crash – and all before the age of 30.

THE dot.com implosion may have thinned the ranks of dapper young internet execs out for a fast buck, but e-Ireland isn't dead and gone.