In the article on the Independent Radio and Television Commission hearings for new radio licences in Monday's editions, a photograph and caption confused Mr Conor Maguire SC and Mr John Maguire. The photograph showed Mr Conor Maguire, chairman of the IRTC, but attributed to him a statement by one of the applicants, Radio France Internationale, of which Mr John Maguire is an employee.

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