I wish to register my disappointment at the inclusion of a trite pun on the Harte name in the main headline of last Sunday's paper. To treat such a tragic event as an opportunity for flippant punnery was in questionable taste. I noted that neither of the political stories sitting either side of the Michaela Harte story were subjected to this trivial but disrespectful treatment.

Stephen MacCann

Ashbourne

Co Meath