Sir, Mr Redmond asks "What do travellers do all day" (June 24th). As well as rolling tar macadam, they sell field gates by the thousand every week.
There are three or four families who control this lucrative trade to the tune of £2 million per annum. It began 10 years ago and a sizeable fortune has been accumulated since, unhindered by anyone in authority despite numerous protests by my company and others. No rates, no taxes and every handout imaginable. He who speaks against this activity is met with "haven't they to live too". Yes, but let everything be equal.
Archbishop Connell is very naive in his concern for their poor living conditions. Travellers live that way because they want to. They are not forced into any conditions and are expert in playing on the sympathies of too many "do gooders". Yours, etc., Bagenalstown, Co Carlow.