It may be time to bring St Patrick back again

Your editorial commentaries today (Apr 12) clearly conjure a starkly contrasting take on the innate qualities of Irishness, as manifest throughout various social realities and workplace tapestries (or should that be travesties?).

The wonderful tendency towards a caring charitable support of the vulnerable via increased fund-raising and re-distribution (eg the work of St Vincent de Paul) stands proud against a backdrop of self-serve, mé-féinism and a corruptive machination designed to garner and grab in pursuit of self.

The shocking disclosure of the sham-operation of civil service grading and promotional career awards is a patently core indictment of the regular systematic malaise of inefficiency, ineptitude and inertia being rewarded beyond all realms of decency.!

We should entreat St Patrick to revisit us, to do a bit more ‘snakes- and-ladders’ banishment.

Patrick J Cosgrove

Lismore

Co Waterford.