Madam, - While visiting Mohill Cattle Mart as a youngster, I frequently noted a man with a cap sitting high up on the steps above one of the sales rings. When I asked my father, he said, "That's McGahern the writer. Everybody else comes here to look at the cattle; he comes here to watch the people."
May he rest peacefully in Aughawillan. - Yours, etc,
FINBARR KIERNAN, Cloncoose, Newtowngore, Co Leitrim.