Madam, - I would like to congratulate your reporter Alison Healy and The Irish Times for your coverage of the unacceptable after-dinner speeches made by two of our guests at the TUI congress in Ennis last Wednesday (The Irish Times, April 25th).
As a member of TUI listening to these speeches I felt extremely angry, embarrassed on behalf of our other guests, and completely at a loss as to how I might address this problem.
Your highlighting of the incident will help me to address this matter within my own union. It will also send out a strong message that smutty, lavatory-type humour is unacceptable in the public arena in Ireland in 2003. -Yours, etc.,
MARIE HUMPHRIES, Wigan Road, Dublin 9.