Media did not inform people of dangers

Alison O’Connor (Opinion, Jan 24) is not right when she says that the culture of entitlement has survived because “Irish people could hardly countenance anything different”.

The reason the culture of entitlement was so prevalent is that one group was in power too long and were not adequately challenged by the media. The consequences were that the ordinary Irish person was not informed of the dangers of this unchallenged power monopoly.

The ordinary people are now paying dearly for that monopoly of power, its fecklessness and sense of entitlement which, as Alison O’Connor says, “will be felt for many more years to come”.

But we have to ask have our media learned anything from what happened? It does not seem so. When the expensive talking shop for the elite that is the Seanad was in danger of being abolished many in media and academia, who did nothing to warn the rest of us of the collapse, wheeled out their sense of entitlement and campaigned for its retention.

A Leavy

Sutton

Dublin 13