Galway Parade

Sir, - I was amazed at your correspondent's review (July 14th) of the

Macnas parade in Galway on the opening day of the arts festival.

Having read the article it quickly became apparent that somehow I

had managed to attend an alternative spectacle of colour and celebration and certainly not the debacle of boredom described by your correspondent. I can only be grateful that the parade I

attended with more than 70,000 other enthralled spectators in Galway was magnificent and entertaining in every respect. - Yours, etc.,

JOHN COSTELLOE,

Oranmore,

Co Galway.