Farmers going east

NICE to see the newspaper property sections reporting our poor farmers buying up those office blocks in Prague and Warsaw which Liam Lawlor does not already own.

It’s fulfilling a civic duty - investing the proceeds of their Brussels-sourced CAP funds in the new entrant countries rather than in Ireland. Maybe the milk, at least, will be cheaper here... some day.

Hopefully, Polish farmers will one day be able to reciprocate and buy a few one-off rural office blocks with secure long-lease tenants in Cahirciveen or Castlebar... when Martin Cullen has finished building his Roman Road empire on the ruins of bygone conquistadors.

John McDermott

56 Martin Savage Park

Castleknock

Dublin 15