New Year, same old Tiger tales?

Sir, – As a citizen of Dublin I feel there is something crass in the way Dublin city councillors agreed to close College Green on New Year’s Eve and to charge visitors €25 to celebrate the festival in what is essentially a public space. Have we learned nothing from the collapse of the Celtic Tiger? – Yours, etc,

LOUIS O’FLAHERTY,

Lorcan Drive,

Santry,

Dublin 9.