Sir, – Further to “In Ireland the vocabulary around rain is bountiful and necessary” (Life, October 11th), I would like to reassure Emer McLysaght that the term “close” to denote sultry weather is well known in Donegal, though rarely experienced. Our weather tends more towards the fresh, and on occasion, ferocious. Returning home from Galway one evening with my husband on Feda O’Donnell’s excellent bus service, we got off at the seafront in Bundoran to have the bus driver, seeing us almost bowled over by the Atlantic gale blowing in as he hauled out our suitcases, say straight-faced, “Welcome home.” – Yours, etc,
RACHEL CAVE,
Bundoran,
Co Donegal.