Sir, – Naomi O’Leary’s quote from an EU official that “Yews are ‘sold’ for €220 at marts” (“If cattle marts worked like energy markets, we’d say it was a load of bull”, Europe, September 14th) would work on the radio but not in the written form. A yew is a poisonous tree usually found in churchyards. A ewe, on the other hand, would be likely to change hands in a mart. – Yours, etc,
PATRICK TALTY,
Tulla,
Co Clare.