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Sir — Ireland’s vegetable growing area is down 10pc on last year. This follows a pattern of recent years where vegetable farmers, who supply the most wholesome fresh produce, are unable to compete with the low-cost selling of imported vegetables.

Cue the sad, predictable outrage at the very mention of it, but Sam McBride’s suggestion (Sunday Independent, May 14) that a United Ireland rejoin the British Commonwealth is something that should be given some serious consideration.

Sir — The campaigner Enda O’Kane is a man fighting a lonely battle to keep longwave radio broadcasting to Irish people in Britain.

There is enormous sadness across North Kerry this week following a tragic car accident on Good Friday which claimed the lives of two well-known women from Ballybunion and Tralee. Siobhan Brosnan from Ballybunion and Mary Barry from Tralee both lost their lives after the collision, involving a car and a jeep, on the N21 at Kilgobbin on the Limerick side of Adare last Friday afternoon at approximately 3pm. Ms Barry, the driver of the car, was pronounced dead at the scene while Ms Brosnan, the dr...

Why not show respect to animals when they’re alive? Have we become a country of ostriches? All week there’s been a big fuss and sanctimonious outrage in the media about a man sitting on a dead horse (disrespectful and regrettable as admitted by the man). But must an animal be dead to be respected? It seems to be acceptable to saddle, mount and even whip the horse while alive so long as you respect him when dead. Let’s be honest: it doesn’t really matter to the poor horse at that stage...

Sea change as open air diving to return in Kerry town Updated / Monday, 28 Dec 2020 17:19 There will be around three hours of diving time at high tides in Fenit Permission has been granted for the restoration of open sea diving at Fenit, Co Kerry - the most westerly commercial port in Ireland – heralding the return of an activity that has thrilled generations of local people. A golden age of diving began 100 years ago in the harbour town just 11kms west of Tralee.. But diving in Fenit s...

Winter solstice today is the day of least daylight in the calendar year. Its seasonal significance is that daylight gradually increases until the summer solstice in June. This winter solstice is particularly symbolic, coinciding with the roll-out of a vaccine preventing Covid-19, which has cast a dark cloud over the world. The availability of a vaccine fills our hearts with hope and joy this Christmas. Although winter is the dormant season of darkness and cold, the solstice marks the “turning...