Sir, - The Irish Times published an article by Sean Kilfeather titled "Tour the politicians are avoiding - so far" (December 21st). I would like to bring to the attention of your readers just two points relevant to this misleading article:
First, the Minister for Tourism and Trade, Enda Kenny TD, has already secured Government agreement to provide the £2 million in State funding which the Societe Tour de France has requested to bring the tour to Ireland. This was announced on October 8th. Secondly, your own paper welcomed this announcement in a leader article on October 12th.
I thought you might wish to be aware of these facts. - Yours, etc.,
Press Officer,
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Dept. of Tourism & Trade, Kildare Street,
Dublin 2.