Sir, – Towards the end of this month the clocks are put back an hour, plunging the entire country into six long months of unnecessary darkness.
It will be dark in November at 4pm. We will endure this self-inflicted darkness until the end of March when the status quo returns. This is surely absurd.
It is as if the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, swallowed the sun and then regurgitated it at the end of March.
If the forthcoming budget cannot compensate the public with some tax breaks in monetary terms, either way, let’s leave the clocks alone and let nature take its course giving us available daylight. It’s free. It will mean less electricity bills. – Yours, etc,
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MICHÉAL Ó NUALLÁIN,
Monkstown,
Co Dublin.