Sir, – Your editorial on the subject of funding for the arts is welcome (September 30th). Ministers trotting out a line of Yeats or Heaney at cultural events as evidence of their appreciation of all things artistic is nothing but hollow tokenism, unless they show support where it really counts – fighting for funding for a sector they invariably credit as being "very popular with tourists". – Yours, etc,
GERARD LEE,
Crumlin,
Dublin 12.