Madam, – When you see an 18th-century stone mansion on 47 acres of rolling Co Kilkenny countryside for sale for €1 million (Property, August 27th), you don’t so much wonder, as so often happens on these pages, if this is a “record”, as consider, yet again, how seriously out of kilter this country became during the Tiger’s reign.
Let’s hope certain currently- mooted plans don’t have the effect of returning the country to that absurd place. – Yours, etc,