Matt Cooper draws a grim graph of wheeling and dealing

Matt Cooper (Opinion, Dec 14) aims an arrow straight and true with his valid, jaundiced commentary at a recent key property acquisition —“Larry Goodman’s purchase of the old Bank of Ireland headquarters on Baggot Street in Dublin.”

Contextualising this significant symbolism against the backdrop of tribunal vagaries, boom/bust variations, political dalliances and high finance machinations, Cooper draws a grim graph of wheeling and dealing.

Decimating the beef industry, manipulating grant award systems to beat the band, bringing the country’s agricultural reputation to its knees, while deftly protecting one’s own personal wealth as theindustry all but expires, is all part and parcel of survival in the ‘bendy’ world of national industrial machination, it seems.