Sir, – While it is fascinating to hear of the involvement of Irish scientists in designing a probe to land on a tiny comet 500 million kilometres from Earth ("Scientists ready for mission to land probe on comet", November 12th), I wonder why we on Arranmore cannot receive fibre-optic broadband. We are only 4.8 km from mainland Ireland. – Yours, etc,
MARIAN QUINN,
Arranmore Island,
Co Donegal.
Sir, – Throwing a washing machine at a rock – isn’t that going a bit far? – Yours, etc,
OLIVER McGRANE,
Rathfarnham,
Dublin 16.
