No country for cavemen?

Sir, – Could Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte's mistaken assumption that every Irish person needs and must have a television be premised on a simple misreading of Alcuin of York's dictum that box populai, vox Dei? – Yours, etc,

J VIVIAN COOKE,

Balally Avenue,

Dundrum, Dublin 16.

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Sir, – I think there should be no backing down to these cavemen. Having escaped the property tax they are now trying to wriggle out of the broadcasting charge. Fair play to the Minister. Bring it on. – Yours, etc,

PAUL MARSHALL,

Seabank, Arklow,

Co Wicklow.