Madam, - An advertisement you carried for Holiday Inn featured, among others, these B and B rates per person:
London €63; Dublin €78; Rome €55; Letterkenny €75; Naples €55; Killarney €90.
I cannot possibly understand why Irish tourism is experiencing, ah, difficulties. - Yours, etc.,
LIAM BROPHY, Tramore, Co Waterford.
Madam Irish car distributors suffering from the effects of block exemption should think again about increasing prices to us hard-up motorists (Motors, June 4th).
Rather than simply passing on the wholesale price rises (and forcing up our already high inflation rate), perhaps they should consider cutting back on the needless gadgets which are finding their way into our cars even the most humdrum models.
Take your average family saloon costing €20,000. Strip it of electric windows, air conditioning, alloy wheels, emergency brake assist (we already have ABS, so why do we have to have EBA?), speed and rain-sensitive windscreen wipers, automatic headlights and colour-coded bumpers/mirrors/door handles and hey presto! you've got a specious new family car for €17,000. - Yours, etc.,
MARCUS CAVAROLI, Mullavalley, Louth Village, Dundalk
Madam, - Last year, Allied Irish Banks made a profit in excess of €1 billion.
Recently, the bank announced that it was scrapping free banking for customers who kept their current accounts in credit. In effect, this is a price increase by an extremely profitable corporation, yet I do not recall a single word of protest from any member of the Government. Is it any wonder our inflation rate is the highest in Europe when the Government ignores blatant profiteering of this kind? - Yours, etc.,
MARTIN LOUGHNAN, Skerries, Co. Dublin.