Sir, - Do I work in a different Baggot Street to Anne Smyth (February 23rd)? Daily for the past five years I have walked the length of it - both by day and night. As a non-driver I regularly use the No. 10 bus - which is one of the most frequent services. Ms Smyth says it's "a dark, a quiet street." There are several fast-food restaurants on both sides, news agents, four pubs, taxi-drivers buying their tea and coffee in Murphys, their regular stop and a profusion of visitors who stay in Ballsbridge.
I don't know where she sees the drug addicts, syringe attackers or murderers. Granted, there are always a few homeless people - frozen on to the pavement mute and motionless.
But to me it's a friendly street. The same window cleaners every morning, the same regulars going for their pint and lots and lots of old people. A great old Dublin street, lacking only Parsons' bookshop. Maybe Ms Smyth should look for a little of the life on the street, instead of waiting to be mugged waiting for a bus. - Yours, etc., Brid Roberts
Monkstown, Co Dublin.