Hard times no more?

Madam, – I e-mailed four Irish companies on April 13th inquiring about the supply of water softeners for a development of 130…

Madam, – I e-mailed four Irish companies on April 13th inquiring about the supply of water softeners for a development of 130 homes. Not one of them had replied by the end of the week.

Is that a sign that the recession is over and they are all too busy to answer e-mails? Or that all four have gone out of business? Or is it just a case of (Irish) business as usual?

My own experience is that every Irish company these days has a website and an e-mail address – but a remarkable number of them don’t respond to e-mail inquiries. – Yours, etc,

DUNCAN J MARTIN,

Cloughjordan,

Co Tipperary.