Variety is the spice of life!
Dear Sir,
ONE of the greatest benefits of having a local newspaper, namely the Drogheda Independent, with its Letters to the Editor section, is the sheer range of topics that can be enjoyed when enough people take the time to write in about current topics.
It's better than any paperback work of fiction for entertainment.
Last Wednesday we had two full pages of letters, just great.
The Cottage Hospital received coverage, and rightly so, but if it comes down to depending on the threat of resignation of local TDS to save it, you should remember the Louth Hospital in Dundalk and what happened with their TDS who were in much more powerful positions, but failed to save it.
You cannot depend on politicians, they will say anything to get elected. Forget that route to save the Cottage Hospital.
The importance of praying for young people was another item that featured, this would probably be more help in saving the Cottage than approaching fickle politicians for backing.
There is nothing wrong with praying and witness to this is a recent arrival from the postman of a letter from Chattanooga, USA. It contained absolutely nothing, apart from a leaflet whose title read God's simple plan for salvation.
Then we had the city status letter. Thousands of local people look at Kilkenny and wonder why is it a city and Drogheda is not, despite being the larger by far than any other big town in Ireland.
Iceland's amazing success story, which was by John Gorman of Ardee and now Australia, detailed how it recovered from financial ruin. It is not a topic the present government or our Troika masters want published in the media because they are working as hard as possible to see that the banks and bond holders get their pound of flesh, even if they have to take it off old age pensioners.
To the other contributors to the Letters to the Editor page I have not mentioned, well done and please continue to write again and again. You are the soul of our local newspaper, the Drogheda Independent.
Yours, Jim Brady, Ballsgrove, City of Drogheda.
