Your correspondent Cormac McConnell’s article”It’s Pure True”(Farming, October 15) about the country postman caught my attention. He correctly states that the green letter box on the village street could be as obsolete as a pair of rusting petrol pumps

The Angelus has been broadcast on RTÉ television since 1962, but in recent years there have been a number of calls for it to be changed in light of evolving attitudes to religious practice.

After a tumultuous few months of hand wringing, convention dates, reminders, and exposures, which reminded me of a lump of driftwood left behind by the tide, and now being fought over by a swarm of beetles, the secret meetings, the handshakes, the infighting, and whisperings of splits in the camp, followed by weeks of speculation over who was going to get the nod at the Fianna Fáil convention, all we ended up with was a 68-year-old pensioner from Dungloe, born on the March 10, 1948, in Burtonport, which used to be a busy thriving fishing port but is now a ghostly shadow of its former self.

I feel I must condemn Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin’s attack on Sinn Féin at Bodenstown on Sunday during which he called them the “Mafia”.

At first sight, It appears perfectly reasonable to expect the EU to pay Turkey €3bn because it is hosting more than 2m refugees, and it will stop these refugees from coming into Europe.