Madam, - I will buy Saturday's Irish Times less often because of the departure of Harry Browne's radio column. His understanding of radio is excellent and he has been incisive and courageous in pointing out the bland, the lazy and the stupid that we often have to put up with on our airwaves. He will be sorely missed. - Is mise,
CIARAN MURRAY,
The Media Co-op,
Northside Civic Centre,
Dublin 17.
Madam, - I am very concerned at the removal of Harry Browne as radio critic of The Irish Times. While I understand that such changes are routinely made in a newspaper, I have a horrible feeling that, to put it bluntly, the US put pressure on The Irish Times to remove Harry Browne from this post.
Could you, as editor, reassure me that the US had no hand, act or part in the decision to remove Harry Browne? - Yours, etc.,
JOHN MURRAY,
Department of Russian,
Trinity College,
Dublin 2.
The US had no hand, act or part in removing Harry Browne as radio critic. - Ed, IT.