Sir, - Allow me to congratulate the novelist John Banville (your Associate Literary Editor and Chief Literary Critic) for his principled stand in resigning membership of Aosdβna.
I hope his example will be followed by other writers and artists who no longer need a State subsidy to survive, thereby creating vacancies for those who do. - Yours, etc.,
Hugh McFadden, Clareville Road, Harold's Cross, Dublin 6w.