Letter to the Editor: Shameful neglect of town’s old buildings

(Editor, Meath Chronicle)

Dear sir - When you no longer have a dog in the race, the best advice is to stay away from the track.

That dictum is well known to me but the ‘right on the ball’ letter from Ms Mary Reid forces me to express my opinion, notwithstanding an absence of over 60 years from Navan, on two of its most special relics.

My late father performed his medical talents up to when he died at the County Infirmary. I spent much of my youth as a student at St Patrick's Classical School.

With those credentials, I feel very free to take to task those in authority who allowed 'St Pat's' and The Infirmary to reach their present sorry statuses. They should be ashamed of themselves.

The picture the Meath Chronicle ran of the Infirmary speaks for itself. M Reid did a much better job recounting its history than ever I could do. I believe that the parties who had the responsibilities, nay the privilege, to see to the care and minding of two such valuable and precious assets of our home town, at some stage, should take a very hard look in their personal mirrors.

Monuments more lasting than bronze have been allowed to die with nary a thought for their past services.

We had monuments more lasting than bronze .. you treated them as if they were sands on the course at Laytown Races.

Yours,

Brendan J Walsh,

Radnor, Pa,

USA.