Sir, – After just spending the best part of an hour stuck on a bus because of traffic disruption in Dublin, I discover it was all because Michelle Obama and her two daughters are staying in the Shelbourne Hotel on Monday night.
While I welcome all private citizens of foreign countries taking their holidays in Ireland, I do think that our hospitality could at the least be reciprocated by such guests having the consideration to stay somewhere outside of the city centre. That way their, some would say, excessive security demands could be met while allowing the rest of us get on with our lives.
Closing streets for a visitor with no formal official function, and her teenagers, is totally over the top. – Yours, etc,
RONAN FOX,
Maywood Crescent,
Raheny, Dublin 5.