Where is Prince Albert?

Madam, - Without resurrecting anything like the Wellington-statue-in-Trim letter writing flurry of last summer, may I ask what…

Madam, - Without resurrecting anything like the Wellington-statue-in-Trim letter writing flurry of last summer, may I ask what on earth happened to the the statue of Prince Albert that - up until a week ago - graced the car park of Government Buildings on Merrion Street? One minute he's there, tucked in to the side of the Museum of Natural History, and the next minute he's gone, leaving nothing but an empty plinth to remember him by. Whisked away in the dead of night. Hardly seems fair, somehow. - Yours, etc.

IVAN ROBERTSON, Wintergarden, Pearse Street Dublin 2.