Letters to the Editor: Rural roads need gritting in a cold spell

One reader writes in to say that surely to God the salt of the earth inhabitants of rural Ireland deserve a bit of road gritting. Would it break the bank to help prevent our rural drivers from breaking their backs?

A snowy road in the Comeragh Mountains of Co Waterford. Stock image

We in Ireland are very lucky to live in such a temperate climate. We avoid the harsh winters of northern Europe, and the blistering heat of southern summers. However, one thing we can’t seem to cope with is a few days of frost and ice.

As I type, school buses and workers are sliding their way home on our minor routes like some crazy game of bumpers, playing chicken with any driver they approach.