Madam, - Jonathan Irwin (November 23rd) wonders why Ireland cannot follow tiny Dubai's lead and build a magnificent sports city. The answer is democracy. Dubai is a dictatorship. Dictators are often excellent at delivering magnificent projects - using, as always, other people's money.
However, being good at delivering projects is different from delivering good projects. Democracies are messy creatures, but one thing they don't do is deliver grand projects that their people, who will have to pay for them, don't want. - Yours, etc.,
TONY ALLWRIGHT,
Killiney, Co Dublin.