Renewal of the nation is primarily a moral issue

IT was a real breath of fresh air to read your editorial on rebuilding Ireland (October 2).

The Irish economic miracle has become the Irish economic parable about a country that lost its soul in an orgy of crass materialism whose icons included obscenely large four-wheel-drive cars and garish hats at the Galway races.

Your editorial put a timely emphasis on the moral implications of the economic disaster and of the measures required to address it.