Sir, - The headline "Casino developers say poor will be excluded" above Frank McDonald's front page article (May 14th) must have made many of yours readers choke on their morning bran flakes.
Mr Norman Turner, a director of Sonas Leisure Ltd, is quoted as saying: "It is not an environment which they (referring to people with welfare cheques) would be allowed to enter. The schools of management at Sheraton", he adds significantly, can identify that type of person.
He goes on, with refreshing candour and increasing arrogance, to state: "In our own subtle way we'll be able to enforce the type of dress code you would associate with a five star hotel." (Mr Turner is strong on subtlety.) Presumably the people clutching their welfare cheques, on being, identified and unmasked, will be "subtly" escorted from the premises by Sheraton "attendants" wearing white dinner jackets.
Myles (God bless him) would surely have enjoyed all this. Picture the scenario where Keats and Chapman, in response to an inquiry from Yeats as to the proper garb for croupiers and night club bouncers, gleefully join in the riposte: "A terrible bowtie is worn." Let Mr Turner ponder that. - Yours, etc.,
Shanganagh Vale,
Loughlinstown,
Co Dublin.