BAY LOFTUS,
Sir, - Donal Foley (August 13th) concedes that container depots are ugly but that they must be managed efficiently. The way containers are scattered higgledy-piggledy over 600 acres of Dublin Port is anything but efficient in terms of land use. At the very least there should be rail connections to both sides of Dublin Port so that the port's containers could be taken by railway flats to and from a marshalling yard near the M50. This would release all the land the port company could possibly need for port development well into this century and beyond.
Instead, the Dublin Port company is trying to establish itself in the real estate business. This is why it wants to fill in 52 acres of the inner Dublin Bay opposite the Clontarf Yacht and Boat Club as part of the process.
I hope the new Minister for the Marine, Dermot Ahern, will take up the points raised by Justin O'Flaherty (August 12th) and J. O'Hanlon (August 20th) as well as what I have been saying and writing for the past 34 years about Dublin Bay and what should be done about protecting the environmental rights of over one million people. - Yours, etc.,
SEÁN DUBLIN BAY LOFTUS,
Seafield Avenue,
Clontarf,
Dublin 3.