Time for tabloid Irish Times

Madam, - It is said that fear of crime is worse than crime itself, but fear of change is the biggest crime of all

Madam, - It is said that fear of crime is worse than crime itself, but fear of change is the biggest crime of all. I understand that your readers in the main could be described as conservative (with the smallest "c", of course) but surely even the most staid would see that a tabloid format for the country's best newspaper would not change the content.

I would pay your already steep cover price so much more happily if the paper was in a format I could use more easily. Is it not about time The Irish Times got with the times? - Yours, etc.,

ANDREW SULLIVAN,

Cherry House,

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Dublin 4.