Keep Bertie’s mimics off the air

I WOULD like to draw your readers’ attention to what I consider to be a serious lapse in standards by RTÉ, our tax and license-funded ‘national’ broadcaster, which has also been dutifully echoed in some press reportage.

I strongly object to the demeaning mimicry of evidence of the Taoiseach in the course of RTÉ’s news broadcasts on the tribunal.

The manner in which the actor did a take-off of Mr Ahern’s homely north Dublin accent and phraseology is in marked contrast to the upper crust — almost ‘Home Counties’ — tones of the learned counsel probing him for details of transactions that took place 14 years ago.