Sir, - I remember, several years ago, my sister-in-law, Dairina Raleigh, telling me that on the August Bank Holiday Monday, in a rare heatwave, Limerick city was deserted. Everyone had taken off for Kilkee, where she was bound herself. Around Garryowen she saw a solitary man, stripped to the waist in the midday sun, laying the foundations for houses for the poor. There's Jim Kemmy for ye. I share in the devastating sense of loss. - Yours, etc.,From Mary KotsonourisGreystones, Co Wicklow.