Sir, – Is there the chance that some civic-minded individuals will join together and claim back for the citizens our shoreline baths at Dún Laoghaire, Blackrock and Clontarf? They stand derelict but salvageable and during a summer when the authorities are urging us to make the city ours, they are the obvious target for restoration direct action. Do not wait, imagining that the authorities will wake from their institutional paralysis. The baths were, and could be again, an invaluable social and cultural amenity. – Yours, etc,