Sir, – Your correspondent, Dermot O’Rourke, talks about “the swimming pool” at the old Dún Laoghaire baths (Letters, December 13th).
I wonder if he has visited the new “swimming pool”. Where is it? What we now have is yet another café with lots of concrete below it and the sea.
Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council has obviously spent an enormous amount of public money on this space. Meanwhile, the Blackrock baths have been falling into disrepair for decades. This wonderful facility was the playground and swimming paradise for many generations of Dubliners.
Why is there no outcry about allowing this facility to disappear into the sea, when the need for public swimming pools is so high?
Ann Ingle: Deliberately going out of my way to move for no particular reason has never appealed to me
Gerry Thornley: How about an alternative look at Ireland’s Six Nations win over England?
Is Ireland anti-Semitic, an outlier of tolerance or in the middle ground?
How risky is it to buy a second-hand EV?
Is it time to start a save the Blackrock baths campaign? – Yours, etc,
DEIRDRE DAVYS,
Blackrock,
Co Dublin.
