Is this a first?

Sir, – From my hospital room in sunny, windswept, Tralee, I have this morning observed both the first swallow of the year and the first convertible with its top down, a brave, maybe foolhardy gentleman in a Mercedes. Is this, I wonder, a unique double first? – Yours, etc,

Dr MICHAEL KISSANE,

Bons Secours Hospital,

Trá Lí,

Co Chiarraí.