Letters to the Editor: Right-wing rhetoric has little to offer the people of rural Ireland

One reader responds to Mick Clifford's column about some Independent TDs, while others look at a range of issues from protests at politicians' homes to Ireland's energy security  
Letters to the Editor: Right-wing rhetoric has little to offer the people of rural Ireland

One reader says there is little point in voting for right-wing candidates as similarly-inclined incumbents have little constructive to contribue while towns such as Kenmare are in steep decline. Stock picture

Mick Clifford is on the ball with his column — ‘Independents add fuel to fire’ (Irish Examiner, May 4). “The rhetoric is designed to pander rather than address fears,” he wrote of the right-wing Independents in Dáil Éireann. 

Cork South-West TD Michael Collins says the EU asylum pact is a deal done by a “dirty government”. Yet his shock-jock EU candidate Niall Boylan thinks nothing of interviewing a person who has sex with animals.

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