Picture that framed our enduring values

THANK you for Valerie O’Sullivan’s picture of tranquillity (Fisherman collecting seaweed near Keel in Co Kerry, backpage, February 25).

The death of the Celtic Tiger has provoked anger, frustration and lamentation, but a tiger of any sort has never been native to these shores.

Nature has been generous in other ways and we need to reevaluate our priorities so we don’t become a people who, in the words of Oscar Wilde, know “the price of everything and the value of nothing”.