Madam, - A spokesman for Carrickmines Castle Preservation Group has identified as one of three choices facing Mr Martin Cullen as being that he "consent to the destruction of Carrickmines Castle". The reality is that Carrickmines Castle has already been destroyed - by the ravages of time. Little of it remains bar the outlines of a few stone foundations and some stone walls rising barely above ground level.
If the amount of interest likely to be shown in these stones in situ by the present or future generations is a fair measure of their value to mankind, that value is virtually nil.
In contrast, the completion of the M50, already inadequate and certainly not amenable to any reductions in its design capacity, is both urgent and enormously valuable.
The Government must move immediately to put in place means whereby common sense - i.e. the sense of the majority of the citizens - can be made to prevail both efficiently and expeditiously in such matters. How about a free vote of the members of the Dáil? - Yours, etc.,
PAUL FEIGHERY, Torquay Road, Foxrock, Dublin 18.
