Citizens need to remember Parnell’s words

Outside, as a new economic recovery day dawns, the water meters are going in. Is this how we cherish the children of the nation in 2015, by measuring miserably their consumption of The Oil Of Life Itself?

One is left to wonder if a meter is to be installed outside the very Church Of The Annunciation, a few hundred meters down the road. And in relation to baptism, is Fr Denis Lennon, PP, to exhort his parishioners to bring a bottle?

‘God help us and save us and guard us!’, as my grandmother, born in the year of Parnell’s Second Home Rule Bill, was wont to exclaim, at moments of particular oppression!

Indeed, Parnell’s ‘Keep a firm grip on your homesteads!’ remains our watchword, as banks make impossible demands on us, and the Revenue Commissioners chime in happily, with the property tax!

As the season of Christ’s birth is almost upon us, we must, (in terms of the 75% welfare bonus we are to receive, with trembling hands, this week), be thankful for microscopic mercies!

David Freeley

Clonard

Wexford