Broadband gives vital link to rural areas

I was looking at an article on the need for high speed broadband in West Cork recently and it got me thinking about just how very far our communication systems have come over the last few decades.

There was a time — and not so very long ago either — when I filed my copy for this paper over the phone via a long-suffering copy-taker whose job it was to take down our words of wisdom no matter how bad the line or how indecipherable our accents.

But as I recall, at the time, that system struck me as being a pretty stylish way of doing things.