Infrastructural Ireland is blind to its own best interests and may end up losing its way

I WELL understand the pressing need for an improvement in our transport system.

As yet there seems little sign of the radical rethink that will be required if we are to establish an efficient, integrated system in which air, rail, sea, and road all play their proper part to enhance the quality of our daily lives.

But I cannot believe that a solution to these problems necessitates a destruction of our priceless Irish heritage. There is so much evidence of dereliction in O’Connell Street and Parnell Square in Dublin as to make me (an Englishman) despair of the indifference to our public wellbeing. Who can doubt that the place for The Abbey, Ireland’s national theatre, is in the capital’s main street?