Madam, - Daily we read in the newspapers of heart-rendering accounts of deaths of our youth due to drug abuse. It is every parent's nightmare to discover that their children are involved with drugs. Parents, schools and the media constantly decry the dangers of narcotic substances. Is it not a big contradiction to extol Phil Lynott in statue form as an icon for our youth? - Yours, etc,
MARIE KIRWAN, Shanakiel Road, Cork.