Saturday 25 May 2013
• Not that I wish to detract one iota from the indisputable magic of the idiot's lantern, but I just found out that turning the television off, putting on my favourite piece of soft music and looking at the last flames of the evening's fire is not only a great time for seeing all the positive in life but also the best sleeping pill ever invented; except for my old teddy bear, of course. Grannies really knew it all.
Dick Barton
Tinahely, Co Wicklow
Irish Independent
* Driving through Connemara, I could not help but observe again the landscape, that is scarred, even seemingly in the most inhospitable and inaccessible places, by the long-abandoned markings of potato allotments that were the only giver of life and harbinger of death should they yield or fail in their cultivation.
* I find it hard to understand why we entered a singer for the Eurovision noise and banality competition when we had the more relevant expertise of Jedward available.
* Sir, I want to congratulate Seamus Coffey on his article on austerity (Irish Independent, May 21).
* Driving through Connemara, I could not help but observe again the landscape, that is scarred, even seemingly in the most inhospitable and inaccessible places, by the long-abandoned markings of potato allotments that were the only giver of life and harbinger of death should they yield or fail in their cultivation.
* I find it hard to understand why we entered a singer for the Eurovision noise and banality competition when we had the more relevant expertise of Jedward available.
* Sir, I want to congratulate Seamus Coffey on his article on austerity (Irish Independent, May 21).
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