Don’t tell countrypeople where to live

THE letter from John McDermott entitled ‘Rural housing policy a blot on the landscape’ (Irish Examiner, Jan 14) shocked me.

Don’t tell countrypeople where to live

There is a school of thought that Dublin is Ireland and the rest of the population should live only in towns and provincial cities. It almost seems that they will round up all country people and set them up in reservations to await a fate similar to that of the native Americans.

Who knows? The rural Irish in confinement might even become a tourist attraction.

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