Why stop there – why not depict zombies or shoot the next Mad Max in Ballylongford?

SIR,

I have to hand it TG4 and their production partners, Midas: they did a fantastic job on Ballylongford last week dedicating almost an entire programme to unadulterated misery, much of it centering around the closure of our Post Office.

I assume that the results were sufficiently depressing that Midas will be back soon.

TG4 will surely post a competition on their Facebook or Twitter page looking for suggestions for even more depressing scenarios.

North Kerry folk without decent broadband can send suggestions on a postcard if they manage to locate a post box

Typically, it seems to me TG4/Midas will want some top notch mí-ádh, a localised viral outbreak perhaps, or a tsunami triggered by our spanking-new LNG plant being blown to smidiríní by An Post fundamentalists

I was thinking of my own suggestion featuring grey-haired zombie villagers wandering the streets aimlessly in search of stamps or a place to pay the license to fund yet more TG4.

There could be a silver lining of course; should Hollywood moguls get a sniff of this latest production we could be in for some serious inward investment. Think of it, the village as a ready-made set for post-apocalyptic scenes in a whole range of productions.

We could be the location for the next Mad Max or a new Walking Dead Spin Off or, in a nod to our TG4 friends, a famine tale portraying starving post office patrons chewing grass off the ditches on the road to Tarbert to pick up their pensions.

The possibilities are endless. Sincerely,

Mamie Kearney,

Bridge Street, Ballylongford.

A zombie scene from AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’.