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.