Madam, - In the controversy over the location of the Abbey Theatre nobody has suggested that it should be built in some town or city outside the capital. After all, it is the National Theatre, belonging to all the people of Ireland, not just the people of Dublin.
People in this area have very little hope of ever visiting the Abbey. Surely the National Theatre could consist of three theatres in, say, Dublin Cork and Galway, with three Abbey companies rotating between the three with different plays? - Yours, etc.,
MAÍRTÍN BAIRÉAD, Carna, Co Galway.