Sir, – Eileen Bannan’s suggestion (Letters, June 21st) that each university graduate be presented with a young tree sapling to plant is wonderful.
Might I suggest an elderberry plant for mature students. – Yours, etc,
DAVID CURRAN,
Knocknacarra,
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Galway.
Sir, – I suspect many leaving university nowadays would approve of being presented with a tree to plant, while being sceptical of their prospects of ever owning a place in which they’d have the right to plant it. – Yours, etc,
BRIAN O’BRIEN,
Kinsale,
Co Cork.