Sir, – Dublin Marathon, as with every year, has shut down access to the city for all but a select few, stopping buses and causing traffic chaos in the greater Dublin area. Year after year, this marathon destroys one of our few prized bank holiday weekends. Any other weekend would be perfectly adequate for a marathon, as is the case for most city marathons globally.
Why should more than one million people have to forfeit one of their few bank holiday weekends for the benefit of a few tens of thousands of marathon participants and associated fans? It is a disgrace that this practice is allowed to persist on a bank holiday weekend. – Yours, etc,
KEVIN NOLAN,
Rathfarnham,
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Dublin 16.
