Sir, - In making a case for an increase in the licence fee, Mr Bob Collins, Director General of RTE, has said that transparency at RTE (relating to the allocation of the fee) would be "dramatically increased".
It seems that, in the case of the public service broadcaster, transparency comes only at a price.
If blackmail is payment made under duress for not revealing information, would we be correct in describing the licence fee increase as "whitemail"? - Yours, etc.,
Donal O'driscoll, Blackrock, Co Dublin.