Sir, - Asked to speak at the Nollaig na mBan dinner in a Vancouver hotel, I concluded my remarks by describing the candle ceremony at sunset on New Year's Eve in homes throughout Ireland. I then lit my candle, which I had brought back with me from Dublin, and was about to take it back to my table when it was taken from my hands. It was not returned to me until it had been held, with some emotion, by every one of the 120 women in the room.
Mr Brennan, on behalf of the Irish women of Vancouver, thank you for your millennium candle. - Yours, etc.,
Mary Hatch, Irish Women's Network of British Columbia, Avenue Delta, Vancouver, Canada.