Sir, – For five years now Tom Cooper (Letters, August 7th) has been sending petty niggling letters to national newspapers seeking to tarnish An Tost Fada, the personal film testimony of Canon George Salter.
Canon Salter told a sad but redemptive story: how in April 1921, the IRA intimidated his father and mother to leave their family farm near Dunmanway at a few hours notice – but how they later returned to west Cork and resumed farming.
Tom Cooper's substantive complaint about alleged bias in An Tost Fada was rejected by the Broadasting Authority of Ireland in October 2012. He then resorted to a nitpicking letters campaign, first about minor slips of memory by the then 87-year-old Canon – which had no bearing on the burden of his story – and has now moved on to gravestones. – Yours, etc,
GERRY GREGG,
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Producer An Tost Fada,
C/o Praxis Pictures,
Blackrock, Co Dublin.