Better to invest in our mythology than new port

THE 10 national ports in Ireland are under-performing, all need assistance and all employ people. Our present economy cannot sustain them and if in future a smart economy replaces the rubble of the present developer-led economy, as experts claim it should, then some of these may have to close.

As a nation we are broke. Drogheda Port Company is almost broke and laying off staff, yet it plans to build a new port at Gormonstown/Bremore.

Treasury Holdings, which is to undertake the project for the port company, is broke too.