Madam, - Joe Gallagher (June 2nd) complains about the inconvenience caused by buskers on Grafton Street.
While the buskers do possess varying degrees of talent, they add life to a shopping street which - with its proliferation of chain stores and mobile phone shops - is in danger of becoming indistinguishable from any UK "high street".
In the space of a few hundred yards shoppers can be treated to anything from puppet shows, to pre-pubescent gymnastic vocals, to mini-dancing leprechauns. There are not many arts festivals that could boast such a range.
Rather than moaning, Mr Gallager should celebrate these people for their lively contributions to one of our main thoroughfares.
He is free to stay away from Grafton Street if he is so upset by people trying to make a few extra euro there. - Yours, etc.,
GERARD REYNOLDS, Ballycullen Road, Knocklyon, Dublin 16.