Sir, - Political parties are always paying lip service to increasing the low number of young people who vote., yet many third-level students and others are effectively disenfranchised by having votes held on weekdays. Can we ask that all parties commit to having the Nice re-run and all other elections polls be held on a weekend, as was the case in the Tipperary South by-election by-election and is the norm in many countries? - Yours, etc., sincerely
Bill Walsh, Crofton Court Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin.1