Inappropriate metaphor

A particularly callous and out-of-date phrase

Sir, – Can we stop using the phrase “no room at the inn” in the migration and accommodation debate, please? A more secular and modern metaphor such as “insufficient space available” would be appropriate. – Yours, etc,

ULTAN Ó BROIN,

Blackrock,

Co Dublin.

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Sir, – Cllr Noel Thomas’s assertion on RTÉ that the “inn is full” rings particularly callous this time of year. Perhaps he missed the nativity message from which that phrase derives? – Le meas,

LIAM O’NEILL,

Kilmainham.