EAMONN DUIGNAN,
Sir, - Why shouldn't farmers make money by selling some land. It seems it is OK in Frank McDonald's book that a property developer can make make millions from selling development land in the city but a farmer is not allowed to sell a site in the country.
Not everybody wants to live in cities. Not everybody can afford to live in cities. Not everybody wants to work in cities.
If job-creation projects in the country were not objected to by bodies residing outside the relevant counties, then people would be able to live and work in the country and would certainly become "of the countryside", as Mr McDonald puts it.
The heritage of any country is first and foremost its people.Without people in the countryside there is no heritage. What Mr McDonald is suggesting is anti-rural, anti-people, anti-community and anti-heritage. - Yours, etc.,
EAMONN DUIGNAN, Mohill, Co Leitrim