7 NOVEMBER 1970, Page 45

There are other well-informed voices be- sides those of businessmen,

urging change in the Republic. The relaxation of the censor- ship of books is one of their victories. In the old days. when a book was banned, it was banned for ever. Now a ban is for twelve years and it can be the subject of an appeal al any time. The Censorship Appeals Board is not completely a committee of 0' White- houses: a judge, a philosophy don, a theatre director and a retired professor.

So you find lurid paperbacks portraying fleeting passion and lucid tomes explaining eternal damnation on one and the same shelf—in housing estate newsagents.

Yet it was only a few months ago that one Dublin paper carried this headline over its advice column: IS KISSING WRONG?

The Editor of the 'Irish Press' here ex- plains the changes in outlook.