A chara, - I regret to inform people that Glenroe, that beautiful rural Wicklow village of happy memories, will soon be no more. The planners are already calling it a town and are preparing massive housing and industrial development. It will soon become part of the greater Dublin sprawl. The fate of Kilcoole-Glenroe is to be decided on April 15th by Wicklow County Council.
As a simple-minded inhabitant of Glenroe, I wonder if anyone up there has a vision of where we want to go in this country or is development and more development an end in itself? Is the area of tarmac or concrete a measure of our success? In our manic haste, are we destroying rather than creating? - Is mise,
HUGH LEE,
Newcastle Road,
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Kilcoole,
Co Wicklow.