Sir, - An Bord Pleanala in its wisdom has granted planning permission for student residences on the Trinity Hall site on Dartry Road, Dublin 6. One of the merits of the planning application cited by the authority is that the monster student hive will be "close to proposed public transport corridors, including a Luas line."
Pardon my mirth. At the present rate of progress, by the time the first trolley trundles across the Nine Arches, the majority of the aforementioned students will be in their dotage.
Instead of waffling on about a spiffing Metro network that few of us will live to see, perhaps someone in DTI could beam the Minister of Starship Enterprise down to earth so she can get Luas running. - Yours, etc.,
Eamon Sweeney, South Hill, Dartry, Dublin 6.