Sir, - I am surprised and ashamed that you would condone a referral to a man, less than six days in his grave at the time of your going to press, as "this scumbag".
It is reprehensible that you would ever print that someone was a scumbag and more so when he had just died and in such tragic circumstances. The entire article was sprinkled with sweeping statements and outlandish attacks on a number of people. All told, it was in very poor taste.
Have I been reading The Irish Times with rose-tinted glasses, not noticing your paper taking on tabloid characteristics? - Yours, etc.,
Ann J. McLoughlin,
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Nutley Avenue, Dublin 4.