Sir, - If Dr Garret FitzGerald follows the advice given by Brendan M. Redmond (May 24th) and tidies up his fractions for Irish export figures and the like, resulting in figures like 20 over 120 to the US, 24 over 120 to the EU and 75 over 120 to the rest of the world, instead of one sixth, one eighth, and a fifth, I'm going to stop reading his articles. We had enough of that kind of stuff at school without bending our brains on a Saturday morning. - Yours, etc.,
Sam McAughtry, Comber, Co Down.