Madam, - I see that the capital's citizens are about to be subject to needless disruption once again on foot of this risible "Reclaim the Streets" rubbish.
Even the title is arrant nonsense. What exactly are these people trying to achieve, other than inconveniencing the rest of the populace, for some nebulous reason best known to themselves? The term "street" stems from the Latin, meaning "paved road" and is defined by the Encarta Internet Dictionary as "part of the road between sidewalks" (footpaths) and "used by vehicles". Therefore, given that streets, by definition, were always designed with the express purpose of conveying vehicular traffic from A to B, how exactly does one go about reclaiming something that one never had any claim to to begin with? - Yours, etc.,
DAVID MARLBOROUGH, Kenilworth Park, Dublin 6W.