Sir, - It beggars belief. The Government spends two years and £41 million doing up Farmleigh and then sits back while Robert O'Byrne waltzes through its "tawdry . . . robustly blowsy" interior, recoiling in horror at all that cheap gold paint (Property, July 26th). I mean, hello, couldn't they have invited him to Tokyo for the morning or something? - Yours, etc.,
Ciaran O'Reilly, Windsor Park, Belfast.