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The Last Straw/Frank McNally: I was delighted to see the publication recently of Dublin Tourism's guide to dining out in the city. It's mainly for tourists, of course, but locals will benefit too. Especially from its insistence that restaurants should be able to offer a two-course meal for under €30, 20, and - excuse me while I fall around laughing - €10.

If this works out, it will go a long way to changing the perception that Dublin restaurants are ludicrously over-priced. No doubt this is an unfair perception, based on ignorance of catering costs, such as the huge expense obviously involved in translating the names of local dishes into French. But now that eating out has become normal behaviour in Ireland, the prices could be normalised a bit too.