Sir, - If John Waters were beside me now I would clap him on the back. In his column of September 25th he denounces the middle-class media for their shoddy treatment of the ILDA during the recent train dispute. But could things be otherwise when, alone among the progressive secular societies of Western Europe, we lack a serious, independent, left-wing press ? - Yours, etc.,
Martin Madden, Tonlegee Road, Dublin 5.