Visitors don’t come to see our motorways

HAVING visited Ireland many times, I’m familiar with the social and economic changes that the country has been undergoing for the past 15 years.

When I first visited in the 1980s, I was astonished to find such extensive carelessness about nature and environmental pollution.

I told everyone I met how we in mainland Europe were facing huge difficulties in keeping our forests alive and mitigating the damage done to nature not only in Germany, but in Italy and France as well.