Coillte sale as harmful as release of fishing rights

The article, ‘Cabinet to review sale of forestry rights,’ by your reporter, Juno McEnroe, raises serious concerns.

How any elected representative, who is entrusted with serving the national interest, could even contemplate the sale of one of the State’s productive assets is absolutely incredible.

It is a starkly similar scenario to the disastrous decision in the 1970s to surrender our lucrative fishing rights.