Madam, - The proposal to sell Great Southern Hotels to Fáilte Ireland is harebrained. What does Fáilte Ireland know about hotel-keeping? It is a promotional body pure and simple.
I see the hand of Mandate/Siptu in the desire to keep GSH in State ownership. A private owner would shut down the chronic loss-makers and end the feather-bedding in the rest. Taxpayers would breath a sign of relief.
Such considerations, of course, count for nothing with the unions compared with keeping their membership numbers intact. - Yours, etc,
JIM DUNNE, Margaret Place, Dublin 4.