We desperately need a forum for public debate

THE Casby caricatures are an exception to the adage that there is no such thing as bad publicity.

How about further portraits, say, of previous Fianna Fáil incumbents of that post, and his take on those who put them there?

But where to hang them...?

This country badly needs a politico-arts centre, a forum for debates, for screening archived Scrap Saturday, Q & A, and for displaying the many and excellent cartoons which grace our newspapers with their insight and intelligence, and for philosophy, (which subject, due to status of religion as an obligatory subject for second-level state exams, most Irish people never have a chance to experience/explore).

This might help both to politicise our citizens and so sweep the cobwebs off an under-performing electorate,and help tighten up political transparency and accountability.

Michele Savage

Glendale Park

Dublin 12