WILLIAM MORRISON,
Sir, - Now that the National Stadium plan has been put on hold temporarily, is there any reason to think it must be located in the same site?
What about considering a change of location - such as Limerick? Already there exists a fine centre of sports excellence at the University of Limerick, with first-class training facilities for all sports, backed up by an expert team qualified in sports medicine. The latest addition to the sports complex is an indoor 50-metre Olympic swimming pool.
Limerick is acknowledged as the rugby capital of Ireland, and has a fine GAA tradition. Other sports associated with the city include soccer, rowing, hockey and horse-racing. The infrastructure is already in place with easy access by road, rail and air.
In addition, the relocation of the national stadium to Limerick, would be a tangible exercise in the much vaunted government commitment to decentralisation.
Finally, surely J.P. McManus would be far happier investing his share in his native county than in the outer regions of a badly serviced Dublin location, with neither adequate transport nor other essential infrastructural facilities.
Any takers? - Yours, etc.,
WILLIAM MORRISON, Waterloo Road, Dublin 4.
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Sir, - I read with much amusement and laughter Fintan O'Toole's brilliant column on the "Bertie Bowl" in last Tuesday's paper.
His columns always make you stop and think: examine your own attitude to whatever it is he's writing about. The hallmark of good journalism. Long may be continue. - Yours, etc.,
FRANK KELLY, St Peter's Terrace, Glenageary, Co Dublin.