LETTERS; Quiet please: Nightclubs now have limiters which cut power when the sound goes above a set level.

From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: September 4, 2007 | Copyright information

Modern Irish malady

LEADING American retail specialist Marie Scichili has attacked Dundrum ShoppingCentre for its 'homogenised blandness.' At last someone is speaking out, albeitunwittingly, against the growing tyranny of mediocrity and dearth ofimagination in today's Irish psyche.

Centre director Don Nugent is horrified at the observation, but in its defencecan only argue that 300,000 people a week vote with their feet.

Tiger feet perhaps: for there is nowhere else to congregate.

Therefore the branded-clad Irish youth must parade the malls of Ireland,leaving ...

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