Madam, - A tip for readers of The Irish Times. Rescue last Saturday's paper from the bin. Decades from now it will be worth a lot of money, not because it tells the story of the resignation of Bertie Ahern, or because of other coverage, however astute, of events, however momentous.
The issue of April 5th, 2008 will be a collectors' item because in it is published for the first time The Lifeboat,a poem by Michael Longley that is likely to be read for ever. - Yours, etc,
ADRIAN FRAZIER, Henry Street, Galway.