Sir, - I see where the Coalition Government is reeling from yet another set of disastrous unemployment figures. I wonder why?
Take for example the 3,500 jobs we could have had from the Phoenix Park Stadium Project. The casino was not rejected because they wished to protect us poor dears from the evils of gambling, it is because of the usual infighting we have witnessed from this coalition of misfits for quite sometime.
The real row is over the awarding of the conference centre to cronies of the Government who, even with a sloped playing field, would he totally incapable of managing such a massive undertaking. From what I can gather the Phoenix Park Project was meticulously planned and costed and the minimum 3,500 jobs mentioned have been accurately and conservatively assessed.
The hullabaloo about the casino can easily be put into context. First we heard about the objection to the height of the hotel. When this objection was taken out we had the one about the chaotic traffic problems. When this was shown up to be the red herring it was, they played what they knew would be their Trump Card vice and prostitution with drugs thrown in for total effect.
I happen to know a little about the Sheraton Hotel Group who would be running the hotel within the complex. They operate an extremely high class chain across approx 50 countries throughout the world and enjoy a reputation that is the envy of their peers.
The instigators of the objectors lobby (who number about six and live in the new Chesterfield Estate) would appear to have an agenda which might well be worth a closer look. The great majority of the population in West Dublin are fully behind the Phoenix Park Project as people like smoked salmon socialist Joan Burton will find out, to her cost, at the polls.
In the meantime 3,500 jobs go a begging. - Yours, etc., 59 Demesne Dublin 5.