It would seem somehow that Michael Clifford (Irish Examiner, April 7) does not fully enjoy or endorse the paltry and pathetic Dáil pantomime (both intra- and extra-mural versions) currently running in Kildare Street. He is certainly not alone.

“But now that he had died, any threat that he might have posed as an unkempt figure in a doorway was gone. He could no longer extend a cup with the threat of imposing on your conscience.”