Sir, – I note that Róisín Ingle has discovered that one’s bed is the best place in Las Vegas (Life, “My night with U2 in Vegas will stay with me forever”, October4th).
I wonder did she notice that there are no coffee machines in the bedrooms or sofas in the foyers? It is all designed to ensure that you gravitate towards the gambling areas. I discovered another omission when I asked the concierge where I could go for a quiet drink and he burst out laughing. “A quiet drink in Las Vegas? You got to be joking!” – Yours, etc,
ENDA CULLEN,
Armagh.
An Irish businessman in Singapore: ‘You’ll get a year in jail if you are in a drunken brawl, so people don’t step out of line’
Protestants in Ireland: ‘We’ve gone after the young generations. We’ve listened and changed how we do things’
Is this the final chapter for Books at One as Dublin and Cork shops close?
In Dallas, X marks the mundane spot that became an inflection point of US history
Sir, – Last weekend I saw the 40th anniversary screening of the Talking Heads Stop Making Sense concert movie. Still great and people were dancing in the cinema aisles. One song the band performed with a single standard lamp like your granny had in her sitting room. Also last weekend U2 performed in the sphere in Las Vegas to great acclaim, with the world’s largest LED display, measuring 580,000 square feet with a resolution of 19,000 by 13,500 pixels. And I asked myself, “Well, how did we get here?” – Yours, etc,
ALAN MEATES,
Dublin 6.