Sir, I fear Arminta Wallace, in her critique of the marvellous film Farinalli Il Castrato (Weekend, January 6th), may have, inadvertently, done a disservice to the future of family planning in Ireland.
However perhaps most people are aware that what the Church did to these choirboys was an infinitely more drastic operation than the mere vasectomy so well described by your critic. Yours, etc.,
Castlebellingham,
Co Louth.