Lordly
Sir: To be savaged by an English Lord (Lord Lambton's Notebook, 5 May) is no more than Irishmen for generations have come to expect. To be accused therefore (in my television interview with Mrs Thatcher) of 'sheer unpleasantness', of being 'a disagreeable saturnine-looking man', of being — are there no limits to my obnoxiousness? — 'a certain Mr Tuohy' is a cross that heredity has equipped me to bear as bravely as a commoner can. To deny the charges, unsupported as they are by any chapter or verse, as grossly unwarranted, which I consider them to be, might only encourage my accuser to sharpen his pen to more painful effect. In any case,-as things now stand, I can take unmerited comfort from Lord Lambton's observation that I 'looked as if I had failed for the Foreign Office and never got over it'. The suggestion that so lowly a ;nember of the Fourth Estate could even have been considered for such an august career fills me with far greater satisfaction than my feeble powers can describe. Denis Tuohy TV Eye Thames Television Limited, 306-316 Euston Road, London NW1
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