Sir, - I have really enjoyed your photographic supplement Exposure 2000 over the past few days. The large print of the seafishing contest on Inch Strand, on pages 80 and 81, is particularly impressive. It is the type of image that lifts the spirit on a wet, grey spring morning - until you observe along the high-tide line the cars and 4WDs of the fisher folk.
Over the past 30 years in which I have known Inch Strand, I have yet to see it without vehicles traversing it - tractors, L-platers, the furry dice brigade, baseball-capped handbrake-turners, rich 'n thick off-roaders, Seamus, Nora agus an chlann go leir - all human life on four wheels is found there. The only time you will see it vehicle-free is when Rosie, Daughter of Ryan, strolls out with Mr Charles Shaughnessy across the silver screen.
Would Kerry County Council please explain why they allow vehicular access to this beautiful coastal environment? - Yours, etc.,
Declan O'Connell, Rathfilane, Crookstown, Co Cork.