Dear Madam Editor
I would like to thank you so much for sending me News Four. It brings me back to when I was young. I enjoy the letters and the interesting articles in your paper, in some of the letters I recognize the names of old neighbours. In your article about Lawless shop, I too remember it when it was Robinsons and the many times I was sent to it for crosswords books for my uncle Joe Scully.

I would like to say a big thank you to an old neighbour Oliver Doyle for keeping myself and my late husband Paddy, supplied with your paper for a long time, but it has been hard to get it since moving to Co Meath thank you Ollie.

In our hearts my sisters and I have never left Stella Gardens, and in our telephone conversations (they live in England) we reminisce about old times, even though people had very little, the strand as we called it we could run up to it and play for a few hours. Oh such hard but happy times! On that note I will close,

Thank you
Yours Sincerely
Josie Gorman
Nee Josie Bolger

Dear Madam Editor
Ours is a world where random acts of kindness are sadly becoming more and more rare where people are often too busy to stop and have a word. But one likes to believe that one’s neighbours are people who do care and on whom one can depend.

Not for some of us residents on Newbridge Avenue. I, like so many others, have lost my front garden to a drive in– a necessity in this area where parking is real problem. I saved my money and I chose my builders well– in short a job well done. But alas there are those who feel it is okay to partially block my entrance and make it impossible for me to exit or enter. A neighbour informed me recently that it was not his fault that my car is too wide to manoeuvre past his illegally parked vehicle.

And to those people who leave their vehicles on my road every morning and then head to Lansdowne station or for the number three bus, watch this space. I am a reasonable man but when it comes to this I may just become irrational.

B Lacey
Newbridge Ave

Dear Madam Editor,
I read with enthusiasm, your editorial in the latest edition of NewsFour. (Oct 2008).

Might there be an opportunity to include the Westland Row CBS Past-Pupils Union [PPU], as part of such a directory? Your publication has made many references to the school, its pupils, and their achievements etc, both past and present, over the years. A multitude of references, for which we are most grateful.

Should you decide to include any such reference, I invite you to view the Past-Pupils Web-Site; www.row.ie from whence a wealth of information may be gleaned.

Should you require further information and/ or assistance, you might follow the ‘contact-link’ on the home page. Alternatively, the site administrator would be very willing to help.

Kindest regards,
John Sheridan.

Dear Mrs Ingle
Thank you for sending me NewsFour. It keeps getting better.

My sister, Josephine Tyrrell (RIP), died last December 2007 in California. She loved NewsFour, her photo was in it twice, once with her Raytown Licence Plate, another time with Gladys O’Connor. She had intended to send you this article from years gone by printed in the Waterfront paper (see page 36). Our father was David Gough.
I also enclose a school photo (above) but no date was on it. I am 73 now so maybe we girls were about ten years old. I am the last one of the family of eight, reared in Ringsend Park. God Bless.

Yours sincerely
Bridget Tiedt (Mrs)

Dear NewsFour
I am nine years old and I wanted to tell you about the very special mass I went to in Star of the Sea church. It was special because I brought my rabbit who is called Hobbit with me. Fr Peter had said that all the animals would be blessed because St Francis loved animals. There were lots of animals there– rabbits, cats, dogs, fish and hamsters. My dad said it was a great mass.

It was outside and after the mass the lady who works in the church Margaret gave us hot chocolate and marshmallows. They were lovely. Fr Peter visits my school and I would like him to know that I had fun.
Thank you.

Robert McKenna,
Sandymount Court

Dear Ann
I have just been reading my August copy of NewsFour. I have been in Queensland with 3 of my sons for the past 7 weeks away from Melbourne cold. I’m 78 now so I feel the cold more then when I arrived here in 1951.
I truly enjoy my NewsFour. The old photos of dockers from 1950 was lovely to see as my late husband Gerry Lynch used that ferry for many years when he was a welder in the docks. His father was also a foreman there for many years, Stephen Lynch. So thanks to Rodney Devitt for the memories.

As my other letters told you, I lived in Coast Guard Station (below) all my life in Ireland. I was home last year met the young couple who live in 79, lovely people but I did not get to see my old neighbour Bridie Sheen who lives in No 74.

Lovely to see Colm DeRís story also from Pidgeon House Road. I loved the story by G P Lyons about the Shelly banks in 1940. I walked along the Shelly Banks to the lighthouse, it was magic.

Home from Gold Coast now back to No 9 to find my October NewsFour. What a beautiful story by Jimmy Purdy remembering lost children. I was looking at Brian Ingle Somatic Osteopath, I wonder if he is a nephew of Jimmy Ingle I knew well.

The Book on Sandymount sounds great. I will keep my eye open for it here in Irish shops in Victoria.

Jean Lynch known as
Jean Campell

Ed: Brian Ingle is indeed the nephew of Jimmy and also my son. I will forward a copy of the book as I do not think it is available in Victoria.