Letters to the Editor: Hotel provides shining example of kindness to retired citizens  

One reader praises the treatment of elderly people by Cork hotel staff, while others discuss European double standards and gambling laws  

The Rochestown Park Hotel exemplifies 'how you would want your elderly parents treated'.

I wanted to comment on my recent visit to Cork to see my dad. I live in the US and don’t get home as often as I should/would like. He is in his mid-80s and, since my mother died in 2016, lives alone in Douglas. 

He goes every day to the Rochestown Park Hotel for his lunch, he and about a dozen or so other regulars. I went several times with him and I was blown away by the kindness of the hotel staff to this group of retirees.