A chara, – Nearly every week in the residential property pages of The Irish Times, pages dominated by south Dublin, there is a reference to Blackrock as a “village”, a term which makes the place seem small, rural and cosy. I often wonder whether the writer behind these captions has ever been to Blackrock. Having grown up there in the 1960s, I remember it well, a lively and busy town, very easy to negotiate, but hardly a “village”. Nowadays it’s more like a suburban conglomerate, a sprawling commuter belt. A nice place, but hard work. – Is mise,
JOSEPH McMINN,
Belfast.
