IT IS most disturbing to hear Tánaiste Minister Mary Harney’s justification for embryo research... that as many of the embryos may die they might as well be experimented on.

MANY people will applaud the PDs for their support of competition in the marketplace.

All who have had to endure RTE’s wall-to-wall advertising promoting itself and the TV licence will understand why the broadcaster is in the midst of a financial crisis.

With the Irish Forum on Broadcasting having now completed its report, it will be interesting to see if RTE's almost complete dominance in the Irish broadcasting market will finally be tackled.

WHILE it is disappointing to see that RTÉ has somehow managed to lose to Sky television the rights to broadcast FAI matches, it is extraordinary to hear RTÉ describe Sky in somewhat derogatory terms, as a "pay-for-view service".