Brave woman stood up to powers-that-be

JANETTE BYRNE’S letter (‘Why they feared me — an ordinary person with cancer’, November 17) should be compulsory reading for all of us ordinary yobs when we feel defeated in the struggle to reclaim our country from the brazen, the arrogant and the smug who monopolise our airwaves, our news pages and our screens.

As a self-declared “nobody, taxpayer, Irish citizen, ordinary person, and cancer patient”, she deserves our gratitude for standing up to the powers-that-be and telling her story.

She exposes the multi-million euro, taxpayer-funded propaganda machine that dominates every minute and every crevice of our media. The power and influence of that machine is demonstrated by Ms Byrne’s experience.