Rural Ireland's long patient wait must prove fruitful

Waiting for essential services has become one of the necessary evils of living in a rural area — but there should at least be some certainty, writes Seamus Boland.

Irish Rural Link chief executive Seamus Boland.

Waiting for Godot, the famous Samuel Beckett play, is a symbolic description of waiting for that significant event in our lives.

Until then, we will have lots of practice. The bus, the train, or the meeting of the love of your life, or just waiting for the modern service phone call provider to get through the thousand instructions before you can talk to a live human being.