Sir, - How can you ruin something that has been happening quite effortlessly for the past 5,000 years? It takes a very special breed of ineptitude. And yet, RTE managed to do just that yesterday. I thought its solar eclipse broadcast was a let-down, but RTE topped that with yesterday's hotch-potch of monks and mystics.
We were treated to 40 minutes of babble followed by 30 seconds of shaky pictures from inside the chamber at Newgrange. Last week RTE blamed the Internet for falling audiences. This week it's placing the blame for its own professional shortcomings on shifts in the Earth's axis. What next - sunspots? - Yours, etc., Derek Scally,
Tonlegee Road, Raheny, Dublin 5.