Sir, - As an ardent fan of ITV's Inspector Morse, I wish to applaud Tom O'Dea's erudite and timely tribute to the irascible Oxfordshire detective (An Irishman's Diary, November 14th). It exorcised for me the elegant hatchet-job on the series which your paper carried from the Guardian service last year.
Anticipating a sad, final two hours of televisual bliss this week, I was consoled by Mr O'Dea's enlightened endorsement. - Yours, etc.,
Oliver McGrane, Marley Avenue, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16.