Inappropriate tabloid tactics

I WAS horrified to see you devoted half a page (April 1) to Claire Tully’s rather dubious achievement of being Ireland’s first page-three model.

Not only was the article one of the longest that day, but it was accompanied by a photograph depicting Ms Tully in a typical tabloid pose.

Since when has the Irish Examiner gone tabloid?

And how on earth was it deemed appropriate to devote feature space to an example of the exploitation, objectification and sexualisation of women in a broadsheet? Particularly so soon after delivering a week of intelligent investigations into misogyny and rape.

And, I quote from the feature, to remind readers: “Her message to young girls who might see her as a role model? ‘What they should know is that anything is possible’”

The article smacked of cheap titillation and desperation to shift copies.

You glamorised one of the very things that exacerbates the sexist attitudes which endanger modern women.

How utterly disappointing.

Sally O'Reilly

Na Banta

Ladysbridge

Co Cork