Sir, – Mark O’Connell berates Dublin City Council for erecting the fencing along the Grand Canal (“The Kafkaesque charade on Dublin’s Grand Canal is not ‘common sense’. It is common stupidity”, Opinion & Analysis, June 1st). For the record, as an example of the lack of local government in this country, the canals are controlled by Waterways Ireland, based in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, and not the city council. Of course the fencing should be removed. – Yours, etc,
DERMOT LACEY,
Donnybrook,
Dublin 4.
Ann Ingle: Deliberately going out of my way to move for no particular reason has never appealed to me
Gerry Thornley: How about an alternative look at Ireland’s Six Nations win over England?
Is Ireland anti-Semitic, an outlier of tolerance or in the middle ground?
How risky is it to buy a second-hand EV?
Sir, – In an otherwise thought-provoking article, Mark O’Connell refers to “Patrick Kavanagh, the Dubliner most associated with this part of the city”.
Patrick Kavanagh was never a Dubliner. He was an Ulsterman, from Monaghan, stony grey soil and all. – Is mise,
CIARÁN Mac GUILL,
Clichy,
France.
