Letters to the editor – The Grand Canal
Letters to the editor – The Grand Canal
15 Nov 1963Letters to the Editor THE GRAND CANAL
A Chara— With reference to the remarks of W. A. Newman in your edition of the 9th Inst., I wonder if he is serious in his suggestion that the Grand Canal be purified. To extend his arguments as he did mine, would Mr. Newman also agree that we purify the dangerous quarries, the rivers Camac and Poddle?
Legislation has been introduced tot make the roads safer. Legislation is on the way to ban airguns and to fill in the dangerous quarries. The Camac and the Poddle are to be culverted. The Corporation has taken the sensible view, which I hope will be endorsed by Dail Eireann. I am sorry about Mr. Newman’s stomach. I am also sorry about Mr. Newman’s temper, about which he wrote today. But what about his temper when traffic becomes congested.
It is hard to know what is best to do for him. If the canal is reclaimed his delays due to congested traffic will diminish. If not, they are bound to become, worse. It is not often that 1 agree with Mr. Newman’s views but 1 would not dare to compete-with him as a writer. Commonsense is against him this time, and no flourish of his pen can alter that position. .
NOEL T. LEMASS,
T.D Dail Eireann.