DEAR SIR:

The headline in a recent Irish Farmers Journal should read “Close Down Rural Ireland” because that is what the evil bureaucrats in Europe have been doing in a systematic way for many years now, not just in Ireland but right across the EU.

Land is being gobbled up by vulture funds, taken from farming families who swallowed the pill “Invest heavily and thrive”.

Our rural citizens travel daily by car, bus and rail, sitting in traffic jams for hours.

In addition, the long daily commute increases their risk of death and injury due to driver fatigue. Wake up Ireland! The enemy now is not invasion by uniformed soldiers we can see but an unseen enemy lurking behind the computer screens of universal corporations.

These entities, as we saw from the last financial crash, have no moral compass but an insatiable appetites for the daily bread of ordinary folk who know when they have enough.

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