Sir, - "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/A stately pleasure dome decree"; and in Agra Emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal for his beloved. Athens has its Parthenon and Rome its Colosseum. In this century Sydney has built an opera house and Paris the Pompidou Centre, while London reaches for the extreme limits of architectural engineering with a millennium dome.
And us? With a dazzling leap of his perfervid imagination, our leader tells us that our "inspirational statement" for the next millennium will be . . . a sports stadium. Well, aren't we the lucky ones? - Yours, etc., C. A. Innes,
Shankill,
Co Dublin.