Madam, - I see that a third restaurant in the Dublin area is about to open soon at the Dundrum Town Centre under the title "Café Mao". Am I alone in finding this title offensive and distasteful?
According to Chinese author Jung Chang, Mao Zedong was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 70 million Chinese, making him by far the worst tyrant of the bloodsoaked 20th century. Yet Dubliners are expected to eat at restaurants where this vicious dictator's face peers down at them from the walls. Would Dubliners eat so comfortably at a Café Hitler or Café Stalin (or even at a Café Saddam)? I think not. - Yours, etc,
DIARMAID MAC DERMOTT, Birchfield Park, Goatstown, Dublin 14.