Sir - The irony of Gateway closing its plant on the day of the release of a person arrested during anti-globalisation protests is not lost.
A number of us went to Genoa with the aim of highlighting the dangers of unregulated free trade and the free movement of multinational corporations.
Gateway may have provided jobs en masse, but in one fell swoop, all those jobs are lost. This is not a necessary closure, but one that will improve profits regardless of the people it affects. Large multinationals may provide employment, but their lack of moral investment in this country results in mass unemployment when we become "economically unviable".
Mary Harney's reaction - to suggest regulating of immigration, not corporate closures - shows how corporations are given precedence over people. The "open" borders of free trade are truly open only for corporations.
Surely it's time we started looking at the further development of indigenous industry and the regulation of multinationals? - Yours, etc.,
Dorothy Kelly, Usher's Quay, Dublin 8.