Madam, - Perhaps Seamus Brennan, as the new Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism - "promoting sustainable tourism" and "preservation of our cultural inheritance" - may discover what exactly it is that tourists - who contributed €4.2 billion to the economy in 2004 - come to Ireland to experience: our arts, history, culture, beautiful unspoiled landscape and heritage sites.
I don't think our motorways are high on their list. - Yours, etc,
MAEVE McCARTHY, Ardenza Terrace, Blackrock, Co Dublin.