Quartet article hits wrong note

IN your article headlined ‘Bowing Out’ (March 12), the demise of RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet is heralded by your correspondent based on views which are inaccurate.

If Jo Kerrigan had sought the views of RTÉ in advance of compiling her unbalanced article, or simply checked matters of readily verifiable fact, all who areinterested in proper debate could have been spared a string of misleading and inaccurate statements.

It is quite wrong to assert that the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet’s income has been cut by 40%, since RTÉ payments to the quartet are not the totality of their earnings.