Sir, – Frank Neenan inquires, on behalf of friend, whether a visit to the local bottle bank is an essential journey (Letters, April 28th). I hope it is because the bottle bank is one of the few places where you are guaranteed a smashing time. – Yours, etc,
KEVIN O’SULLIVAN,
Letterkenny,
Co Donegal.
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Sir, – Passing through Kinsale yesterday en route to work, where much conversation involved our good fortune at being frontline and thus to “feel normal”, I was surprised to encounter a long traffic jam. Completely static and blocking a road in a quiet part of a now very quiet town, it seemed remarkably incongruous. Driving past, I could see that the tailback tracked towards a bottle bank. Your letter writer can inform his friend that the need to make a significant deposit in such banks is absolutely an essential journey. – Yours, etc,
BRIAN O’BRIEN,
Kinsale,
Co Cork.