Letters to the Editor: Broadband rollout is leaving rural Ireland disconnected

One reader queries the wait for fibre broadband in Waterford, while others consider issues including conflict in the Middle East, alcohol legislation, biodiversity loss, and abortion rights

'The provision of fibre broadband in Ireland is a history written with promise ink, dipped in an inkwell of a lack of ambition and delivery,' writes John Tierney.

“Another year over and a new one just begun,” is my John Lennon-inspired question to National Broadband Ireland (NBI).

In November 2019, when the contract was signed for the National Broadband Plan (NBP) connection targets were puffed up while gung-ho language was spoken to say that this project will be driven like witches who could not be burned.