Madam, - Why does RTÉ persist in telling us their sports coverage is "free to air"? This rhetoric clearly ignores the sizeable and compulsory payment all television owners are obliged to make. The majority of this payment, or so-called "licence", funds RTÉ and is incurred regardless of whether one watches anything on RTÉ or not. Their use of the word "free" in the aforementioned context is almost patronising. - Yours etc,
ALEX STAVELEY, Dublin 7.