Madam, – Last week, Sarah Carey purported to offer an analysis of the state of the Irish healthcare system based on her experience in bringing her young son to AE on St Stephen's Day. This week, it seems she didn't even have to leave the comfort of her home, in that her column consists of her musings on the previous weekend's Marian Finucane Show("Puzzle of why some get away with crass talk", Opinion, January 13th). Such piffle has no place in a quality newspaper. – Yours, etc,
Madam, – Well done, Sarah Carey! Let’s not have any more of these pernicious moments of light-heartedness from Colm Tóibín, when we can continue being morally improved by the po-faced sermonising provided by certain others in the Irish media.
What with all the unalloyed jolliness that’s been delighting the country of late, you’d think Mr Tóibín would know that what we all need on the radio of a Sunday morning is a good, hard, remedial dose of thin-lipped, life-denying misery.
Otherwise, we might lose the run of ourselves completely. – Yours, etc,