Sir, – David McWilliams envisages a united Ireland emulating Austria with an additional 54,000km of road and rail links, tens of thousands of extra teachers and double our housing stock (“A new united Ireland must plan for a population of 10 million”, Weekend, Opinion, November 19th).
Having lived in Vienna, may I add wiener schnitzel, skiing and Mozart to his wish list? – Yours, etc,
Dr JOHN DOHERTY,
Gaoth Dobhair,
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