Madam, - Your online archive search can be a useful tool. On November 9th, 1999, you published a letter with the title "Marathon Bore?" in which the author claims that the Dublin City Marathon "is just one big pain in the backside for citizens who find their every move curtailed by this overrated festival of self-mortification". Five years on (October 27th) your letters page regular, D. K. Henderson, repeats himself in the forum he holds so sacred.
Dare I say that we have found our Marathon bore? -Yours, etc.,
FEARGALL M. KENNY, New York.