Older people defend their rights

YOUR editorial (December 15) contained serious criticism of members of the public — some of them older people — who were offended by the recent Meteor TV advert and made their objections known by complaining to the company and the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland.

The editorial on political correctness bemoaned the fact that we seem to spend an inordinate amount of time and energy trying to get others to behave like ourselves or share our beliefs.

It then proceeded to label those who objected to the “wonderful” Meteor advertisement as “people who could not see beyond their noses” and whose views were dismissed as “idiotic condemnations”.