Madam, - I could barely restrain myself from laughing out loud as I read the report (July 26th) of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission's partly upholding a complaint by Fine Gael concerning allegations, aired on RTÉ's Liveline, that party leader Enda Kenny jumped a queue before boarding an Aer Lingus aircraft at Gatwick airport.
The allegations were supported by passengers calling the Liveline show.
In rebuttal, Fine Gael's director of communications, Ciarán Conlon, said, "The accusation was untrue and constituted a serious attack on his [Mr Kenny's] dignity, honour and reputation".
He further added, "passengers with children were accommodated first and the fact that Mr Kenny had an 8pm meeting with European political leaders in Dublin that evening was relayed to a local Aer Lingus staff member."
I am far from being an expert on the laws of physics, aeronautics or time travel, but I had to ask myself: what difference would it have made if Mr Kenny was the very first aboard the flight or the last?
So I applied the law of common sense to the situation and concluded that, in either case, the plane would still have arrived at Dublin airport at precisely the same time. - Yours, etc,
EDWARD D RAFFERTY, Mill Park, Castlebridge, Co Wexford.