Sir, - I would like to applaud Annemarie O’Brien’s recent article in The Irish Field as being the first of its kind that I have seen, to give serious thought to alternatives to fossil fuels for the future of Ireland’s energy needs.

As a stud manager who has seen, in the last three years, 70m high pylons cut across a portion of the farm in Turkey and 150m windmills erected 4km (as the crow flies) from the stud, I am still resolutely pro-wind.