Sir, – I was sitting in a coffee shop in Blackrock about nine months ago when the following happened.
A lady approached and asked me if I was the man in The Irish Times Magazine.
I politely told her I was not.
I don’t want to grow a beard but maybe Seán Moncrieff would consider doing so as his new byline photo makes him look even more like me. – Yours, etc,
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JOHN BURNS,
Blackrock,
Co Dublin.