Sir, - It is OK for the local council to install a loose manhole cover in the public road - a cover that rattles and clanks every time a car passes over it?
If I kicked up a similar racket in my garden just a few yards away (with, say, a constantly banging metal gate), I'd be expecting a visit from the Garda. - Yours, etc.
Mrs Edna White, Booterstown Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin.