Sinister practice of shutting rural services

The centralised system in this country has reduced down most civilising services which ensure a united community ie, post office, Garda stations, hospitals, schools, and then these communities are declared unviable.

This is the sinister practice now being executed throughout the country, and if communities allow even one of the services named above to be closed then their destruction will be on their own heads.

It is absolutely imperative that communities stand against the closure of any of the services above.

If one is allowed to close then the others will follow, and that is how the Government can engineer this practice; they close one service in an area, and other similar services in other areas keep quiet in the hope that they won’t be targeted, but it is due to their silence that the services are slowly being destroyed and communities undermined. Make a stand on one issue and restore all.

Liam Ó Conaire

Bruff

Co Limerick