Sir, – Further to "TV licence fee to be replaced with charge for all household devices" (News, August 2nd), having paid my TV licence over many years, I am delighted to see that the Government has finally discovered a method of soaking up revenue from the spongers. – Yours, etc,
J GERARD OSBORNE,
Dublin 13.
Sir, – We Irish love euphemisms like “the Emergency” or “the Troubles”.
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But perhaps the new TV licence fee, which is neither a licence nor a fee, should be called more honestly “the RTÉ tax”, because that is exactly what it is. – Yours, etc,
GEORGE REYNOLDS,
Blessington,
Co Wicklow.