Same old story

“He let the little wealth he had

To build a house for fools and mad,

And showed in one satiric touch

No nation needed it so much.”

So wrote Dean Swift who was, in fact, the benefactor in question.

Many would agree that little has changed in the meantime except that the lunatics running the asylum now seem to have run amok in the health service.

Thomas Studley

Orwell Road

Rathgar

Dublin 6