Ted Cronin (Letters, Feb 21), lamented that if animals could speak, we would all cry listening to their stories of the cruelty humans inflict on them.

Gandhi once said: “The greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

There has been a lot of talk and fuss about The Gathering or, as I call it, the ‘Spend thousands to come home, go on the piss for a few weeks, and then feck off back to wherever you came from’ event.

WHEN they are finished stress testing the banks, will they then do the people?