Dear Editor

I have a letter in today's Galway Advertiser. I rarely write letters to the local newspapers these days. The letters pages are typically so littered with cranks that, well, most of the time I'd rather not go there.

I even have a poem satirising the compulsive writer of letters to the editor. You can read it in issue one of the recently revived online Burning Bush, edited by Alan Jude Moore. http://burningbush2.com/contents-3/kevin-higgins-two-poems-2/

I made an exception and sent this letter in because I consider the issue an important one. http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/53829/hospital-arts-trust-deserves-every-penny-it-gets

For more about the arts progamme administered by Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust  

http://www.artsandhealth.ie/2012/04/20/galway-university-hospitals-celebrates-a-morning-of-poetry/print/