Sir, – Can we stop using the phrase “no room at the inn” in the migration and accommodation debate, please? A more secular and modern metaphor such as “insufficient space available” would be appropriate. – Yours, etc,
ULTAN Ó BROIN,
Blackrock,
Co Dublin.
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Sir, – Cllr Noel Thomas’s assertion on RTÉ that the “inn is full” rings particularly callous this time of year. Perhaps he missed the nativity message from which that phrase derives? – Le meas,
LIAM O’NEILL,
Kilmainham.
