Sir, – A few decades ago, I wrote to the then editor and mistakenly wrote that the sailor Conor O’Brien’s circumnavigation of the world was “single-handed”. The response from your readers correcting me was torrential. I responded with a one-word letter to the editor: “Sorry!”
Five letters. Is this a record? – Yours, etc,
FRANK SHANNON,
Bandon,
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Co Cork.
