DEAR SIR:

Thank you for that wonderful article in the Irish Farmers Journal (18 February) about the National Children’s Hospital. I support the Connolly For Kids Hospital Group and have campaigned with them for years to have the hospital built on the Connolly site in Blanchardstown. We have not gained traction so far. I am sure this is due to politics with a Capital P. Perhaps the scene is shifting and your article is a tremendous encouragement to all Connolly supporters.

I was delighted to read that article, as indeed were my fellow campaigners. Perhaps I could ask you to keep up pressure like that? There seems to be some sort of quiet, but effective, censorship being exercised by the big circulation newspapers in that no letters have been published about this silly, unsound, expensive and irrational decision to attempt building a children’s hospital on the St James’s site.

Wrong place; wrong cost; wrong everything. Even if many more millions were thrown at it, it could never be right.

Thank you for you common sense and support. Welcome on board.