'Out of Service' destination

Madam, – While waiting, for a bus on O’Connell Bridge, in the bitter cold recently, I got chatting to an American tourist. He…

Madam, – While waiting, for a bus on O’Connell Bridge, in the bitter cold recently, I got chatting to an American tourist. He was very interested in the many buses speeding past, heading for Out of Service.

He wanted to know where Out of Service was, but I had no idea where it was. It must be a very important place, he said, and expressed the wish to visit it.

Surely Fáilte Ireland is missing an opportunity to market this exotic location abroad? It could be Dublin’s Hy-Brasil. – Yours, etc,

MIKE DOYLE,

Monkstown Valley,

Monkstown,

Co Dublin.