THE new RTé television news introduction with the few bars from 'O'Donnell Abú' puts me in mind of the sunny long-ago.


The flying-around bits look like the pound notes we were used to when Lady Lavery had her fizzog on them. I think she had a fling with Michael Collins for a while. Don't know where he got the time for that sort of thing. Anyway, the new look doesn't change the fact that news of recession and repossession still holds the same old meaning.


Robert Sullivan,


Bantry,Co Cork.