I WOULD have loved to have watched Andrew Wray’s face when he wrote his letter (Friday, July 17) about the cause of this recession.

IN his letter (July 7), Brian McDermott refers to the comments by Finance Minister Brian Lenihan as to the causes of the present economic difficulties arising to the greatest extent from the low interest rates and the influx of cheap labour from eastern Europe, going on then to say “...we need to retain and regain as much power in Ireland as possible to get us out of this sorry mess”.