Madam, - It seems ridiculous to me that after spending quite a considerable sum of money regenerating O'Connell Street, the relevant powers that be did not possess the foresight to equip our very own Daniel O'Connell with some sort of anti-pigeon weaponry. The beautifully restored monument is slowly but surely being destroyed by pigeon droppings, such that it now looks as though "The Liberator" had a fine head of snow-white hair. Should we rectify this situation or is this merely a revisionist take on Daniel O'Connell's fashion sense?- Yours, etc,
DARRAGH M HIGGINS, Dublin 9.