Madam, - I read in your excellent "Wild in the City" supplement of April 19th that Senecio squalidus (aka Oxford Ragwort) was first found in Cork in the early 1800s and made its way to Dublin by railway, not arriving there until around 1890.
Perhaps this will silence the modern critics of our public transport system. Is this not proof at last that the service has indeed improved? - Yours etc.,
EAMON SHEPPARD, Foxes Grove, Shankill, Co Dublin.