Sir, – Ronan McGreevy ("An Irishman's Diary", December 9th) quotes a letter by James Doherty, a Leitrim man serving in the Salonika campaign in the first World War, who wrote that the mosquitoes were worse than the "clag" (midges) at home. When I was young and growing up on a farm in south Leitrim, I was bitten by both midges and clags. The term clag referred to gadflies and horse-flies but not midges. I have not heard the term elsewhere. Is the word peculiar to Leitrim? – Yours, etc,
KIERAN O’ROURKE,
Donnybrook, Dublin 4.