Irish Water’s towering problem...

■ Apparently Irish Water is experiencing some difficulty in pumping water to the top floors of some Dublin apartment blocks.

Meanwhile, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which is more than half a mile high and nestles in the middle of an arid desert, has no such problem.

We seem to be in dire need of some modern technological know-how. Niall Ginty

The Demesne, Killester, Dublin