Sir, – I am currently visiting my daughters in Australia and have been enjoying the outdoor rock pools of which there are too many to number.
These pools offer safe, calm water for inexperienced and incompetent swimmers like myself while those more capable are happy to compete with the waves off the beaches.
It seems to me an incredible folly on the part of Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to have opened with much fanfare a facility called “The Baths” where baths should but do not exist.
Almost 30 years ago my daughter remembers the council running a competition for children to submit their visual representations of what this facility should look like. She remembers submitting elaborate drawings with pools, diving boards, etc, as I would imagine most submissions did.
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I would urge the council to listen to what the public desire and reconsider this project rather than creating follies that will have to be endured for years. – Yours, etc,
AIDAN BOYLE,
Dún Laoghaire,
Co Dublin.
