Madam, - Back in the great days, say 20 or 30 years ago, we were all full of ourselves about how we were pushing back the barriers, opening things up, shuffling off the restrictions of the past, coming out into the light from the darkness of our benighted past, blah blah. I remember people who represented themselves as progressive (sic), often at the top of their voices, and seemed to see it as their bounden duty to shoulder their way past Customs with broad arrest-me-if-you-dare smirks on their faces and copies of Playboy or some such garbage clutched ostentatiously in their paws. And in all this cheapjack point scoring they chanted the one mantra over and over: "It is the absolute right of any adult to read any written material or to look at any image he or she wishes." (Italics mine).
What precisely is it that this guy Curtin was alleged to have done, if not precisely to avail of this hard-won right? Or have I somehow got it all wrong here? I only ask because I wish to know. - Yours, etc.,
JOHN CULLY, Ardenza Terrace, Monkstown, Co Dublin.