Sir, – The chief executive of Today FM Tom McPartlin (September 10th) takes Una Mullally to task over her article "Women need to raise the volume on radio exclusion", Opinion & Analysis, September 8th). In doing so he also took a swipe at the dominance of males in the bylined articles in your newspaper. This lack of balance is a problem that print media, radio and television need to address.
However surveys conducted in 2010, 2012 and 2013 show that the Last Word (Today FM) scored lowest when compared with similar programmes on other stations, scoring 14 per cent, 16 per cent and 19 per cent for female participation across the three surveys.
Long may Una continue to write about the lack of female voices on air. – Yours, etc,
LUCY KEAVENEY,
Killester,
Ratoath, Co Meath.