Madam, - Given that your Letters Page is usually a sounding board for topics of major interest to your readers, you may consider my gripe to be a trifle trite. However, can I possibly be alone in the opinion that your Doonesburycartoon is a load of absolute tripe?
While it is clear that Mr Trudeau is casting a jaundiced eye on the US presidency, politics, public morals, education system and foreign policy, his varied topics are treated in such a puerile and idiotic manner and have such little relevance to Irish readers that I cannot understand why you both to syndicate him.
We were also treated recently to the indignity of a second
showing of the ridiculous Turgisticmenistan episode in the space of
a few weeks. So, dear Madam, to preserve my equanimity, will you
please trash Trudeau, dump
Doonesburyin the dustbin and give us a decent cartoon like
Hagar the Horribleor even
Andy Capp? - Yours, etc,
TERRY CRAWFORD,
Offington Lawn,
Sutton,
Dublin 13.