Dear Editor
This is another air show letter. You published one in your 19 December issue, so you asked for it. This letter differs from all of the others in that it offers a solution that will please everyone. Yes, everyone! Members of the Galway Alliance Against Western democracy and those who want the successful and popular annual event to continue.

Here is the idea. Instead of inviting NATO countries to send aircraft, we could invite the air forces of their enemies, i.e. Russia, China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea etc. We are, after all, a neutral country and there really has been an unfair bias towards NATO in the past.

Those people who just wouldn't be enticed by an air show that didn't feature fast, noisy killing machines will be excited at the prospect of seeing a Russian MIG 29 or a Chinese J-10. Members of the GAAW on the other hand, will feel a warm glow inside knowing that these aircraft were designed to save innocent civilian lives on the ground by intercepting and destroying the very aircraft they have protested against in the past. Also, we as a nation could tout our neutrality with a bit more credibility on the world stage.

It won't be easy, but the organisers have several months to arrange it and I for one will not be attending next summer's air show if it has nothing genuinely new to offer.

Yours,

Tom Joyce,
Dun na Corribe,
Headford Road

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