Sir, - Your edition of December 17th carried a synopsis of part of a paper published in my name in the recently published Offaly county history.
Due to numerous errors introduced during the editorial process, interpretatively and factually the published paper is unsound. It never should have been published in its current form.
Consequently I intend to make my research available instead for publication in a reputable academic journal.
Your reporter Sean Mac Connell could not have known these things from the feebly worded error message at the top of the paper, but at least your readers may know now. - Yours, etc.,Brian Murphy, Merrion Park, Blackrock, Co Dublin.