Airbridge design at Pier D
Sir -- Brian O'Brien's letter (Open skies at the airport, Sunday Independent, September 21) criticised those who planned and designed the new Pier D boarding gate facility at Dublin Airport for failing to include airbridges.
Cromwell not guilty as charged
Sir -- I would like to declare open warfare on the 17th Century experts of Ireland please. Allow me to explain.
Beat bugs with a return to basics
Sir -- The new lethal superbug which has arrived in some of our hospitals is reported to be every bit as contagious as the MRSA and again a footnote to the report, repeats the vital need for hand washing prior to anyone approaching a patient in a ward or elsewhere.
'Freeze' campus
Sir -- What your readers (with or without children and grandchildren of their own) do not realise is that an essential part of the plan for a single-campus children's hospital (on a small, traffic-gridlocked site at the Mater) is to close down and demolish the existing functioning 24-hour children's hospitals at Crumlin and Tallaght and replace both with one entirely new €30 million DAY ONLY (my italics), no overnight bed facility at Tallaght.
