Sir, – There are multiple adverts across broadcast media which mention “journey”.
Years ago, when my parents mentioned “journey”, it meant piling into the old Prefect or Wolseley, the smell of the leather seats and wood interior intoxicating, and barrelling off to the seaside, up the Dublin Mountains, or “down the country” to visit relatives.
Now the ads tell us everything is a journey. Paying your electricity bill, is now a journey. Installing a new kitchen? You’re on a journey. Heatpump? Welcome to your green journey.
It’s time the advertisement people started to use some imagination, stopped looking at each other’s homework, and brought us all to the end of this particular trip.
My daughter’s new phone number will stay with her for life. It’s like we’ve given her an invisible, digital tattoo
‘The phone would ring and it would be Mike Scott from the Waterboys or Bono from U2. Everyone wanted to talk to my father’
Chris Packham: ‘I was a very angry young man, confused because of my undiagnosed autism. It had an enormous impact on my life’
Pat Leahy: Have our politicians forgotten what happens when you lose control of the public finances?
Are we there, yet? I hope so. – Yours, etc,
PETER DECLAN O’HALLORAN,
Belturbet,
Co Cavan.