A chara, – Samantha Long (June 18th) weeps for what Dublin children will lose if the traditional summer water fight dies out as a result of the looming metering system.
What of the rest of the nation’s children? My four boys have lived with their peripatetic father in Dublin, Cork, and Kilkenny; they have holidayed in Donegal, Kerry, Wicklow, and Sligo; and they have visited and played with the children of friends and relatives in Waterford, Galway, Longford, Clare, Laois, Waterford, and more.
A feature common to all was the water fight. If it perishes on the altar of conservation its loss will not merely be a cause of sorrow in Dublin, but to children everywhere in the land. – Is mise,
Rev PATRICK G BURKE,
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Castlecomer,
Co Kilkenny.