Madam, - May I congratulate you on a wonderful new layout? Don't mind the begrudgers; the slight price increase, in a world full of not-so-slight increases, is a small cost to pay for a new eye-catching format topped with some of the best reporting in Europe. Kudos! - Yours, etc,
ALAN DALY, Finglas, Dublin 11.
Madam, - Hearty congratulations on your content changes and redesign, which more than compensate for the cover price increases. Just one gripe: could you not have brought the family notices section on the inside back page into line with the rest of the paper's new look? While the list of deaths and other similar notices are officially ads, they are part of the paper's intrinsic character and their exclusion from such a major facelift appears odd. - Yours, etc,
MICHAEL CULLEN, Albert Park, Sandycove, Co Dublin.
Madam, - Yesterday's correspondence regarding the "new look" of your paper indicates, through both approval and disapproval, that two of the correspondents might well use the fact of their readership of The Irish Times as one of the foundation stones of their respective identities. A philosophical question for your readers: Is such an assumption of identity a rational stance to take for any sane person? - Yours, etc,
CIARAN CASEY, Tivoli Terrace South, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin.