Sir, – I was interested to learn, through your Corrections & Clarifications section (December 27th), that Bishop John Buckley has "not at any time bowled in clerical garb". I wonder whether your obituary writer ("Mick Barry, the modest monarch of Irish road bowling", December 20th) was misled, as I was, by the photograph on page 184 of the coffee table book A Day in the Life of Ireland, appearing to show his grace in cassock, mid-bowl. The book claims he was playing Frank Nash, the lord mayor of Cork, that day (May 17th, 1991). – Yours, etc,
JOE STYNES, Cork.