Handling the news

Madam, - I almost dropped my toast into the old Earl Grey yesterday morning on hearing Ms Valerie Cox, the newspaper reviewer…

Madam, - I almost dropped my toast into the old Earl Grey yesterday morning on hearing Ms Valerie Cox, the newspaper reviewer on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, telling listeners at around 7.10am that she could not review The Irish Times because it was "not to hand".

At the same time, across the Irish Sea from Donnybrook, I was enjoying my Irish Times on the web for a very modest subscription. May I commend this new-fangled internet technology thingy to RTÉ? - Yours, etc,

Dr NIGEL P COOKE, St Helens, Lancahire, England.