Bring St Patrick's Day home

Madam, – Could all the Dubliners who’ve had enough of the overblown, five-day St Patrick’s Festival tell the organisers to fund…

Madam, – Could all the Dubliners who’ve had enough of the overblown, five-day St Patrick’s Festival tell the organisers to fund regional acts to stay in their own towns? We’re tired of our newest and most talented participants being vacuumed up by the Dublin organisers who have a budget to spread around, leaving us the rest. Make it a national festival; fund good acts locally. – Yours, etc,

TOMMY WEIR,

Dromahaire,

Co Leitrim.