Sir, – Further to Frank McNally’s A History of Ireland in 100 Journeys (An Irishman’s Diary, August 16th), “And the man that never saw Mullinahone shouldn’t say he had travelled at all.” – Yours, etc,
SHEILA SMITH,
Mount Merrion,
Co Dublin.
My daughter’s new phone number will stay with her for life. It’s like we’ve given her an invisible, digital tattoo
‘The phone would ring and it would be Mike Scott from the Waterboys or Bono from U2. Everyone wanted to talk to my father’
Chris Packham: ‘I was a very angry young man, confused because of my undiagnosed autism. It had an enormous impact on my life’
Pat Leahy: Have our politicians forgotten what happens when you lose control of the public finances?
Sir, – Follow the tar road to the cross. – Yours, etc,
JOHN S HOLMES,
Leenane,
Co Galway.
Sir, – I’ll tell you a story that happened to me/One day when I went down to Youghal by the sea. – Yours, etc,
MICK O’KEEFFE,
Ballincollig,
Cork.
Sir, – Going to see a man about a dog. – Yours, etc,
TONY CORCORAN,
Rathfarnham,
Dublin 14.
Sir, – I’ve travelled through Columbia’s shores, all toils and dangers scorning, To the farthest eastern border and westward to the deep, The broad extensive cotton fields and plains of Alabama, The mines of lone Montana and the Rockies wild and steep (The Kilnamartyra Exile) – Is mise,
TIM DENNEHY,
Miltown Malbay,
Clare.
Sir, – Will we have one for the road? – Is mise,
PAUL EGAN,
Balgriffin,
Dublin 13.