A chara, – With keen interest, I read your heavily asterisked report from the Dáil about the interaction between Danny Healy-Rae TD and Paul Murphy TD (News, November 6th). In your sister paper, the Irish Examiner, I read a similar report which didn’t need to use any asterisks. Are the readers of The Irish Times still so reserved and demure that they need to be insulated from certain words?
Pass the smelling salts! – Is mise,
PASCAL Ó DEASMHUMHNAIGH,
Inis Corthaidh,
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