Sir, – The photograph accompanying the obituary of journalist Alan Bestic (June 14th) showed him with unnamed colleagues in 1947.
The man on the extreme right is clearly Quidnunc columnist Seamus Kelly, with Brian Inglis (author of West Briton and later Granada TV journalist ) beside him. It is possible that the man beside Bestic holding a cigarette is Donald Smyllie, brother of editor Bertie Smyllie, and also an Irish Times sub-editor.
Can any reader identify the man in he middle with glasses, looking amused at what Bestic has just said? (Just to confuse matters the online version of the photograph includes two others, if anyone can and wishes to name them.) – Yours, etc,
KIERAN FAGAN,
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