Sir, – I fully concur with David McMahon (November 3rd) that a mood of casual menace broods over parts of the city centre. I recently got off the Dart at Tara Street station to witness a crowd of loud-mouthed and aggressive youths drugged up to their eyeballs. They were screaming obscenities. On my walk down towards Temple Bar, there were more people roaring obscenities. These scenes are commonplace all around the city centre. It's time anti-social behaviour was taken seriously by the powers that be, or our society will start to decay and we will lose our city to fear. – Yours, etc,
ANNE MARIE MORAN,
Raheny,
Dublin 5.