Sir, Father Ted is now being shown on RTE, and life as we know it has not deteriorated. We saw the first episode on October 3rd, and so far we have not had plagues of locusts, famine or pestilence, visited upon us in divine retribution. Neither has the sky darkened to the extent that the end of the world is an imminent probability. Phew! Yours, etc., Bantry, Co Cork.