I love receiving entries to our Crossword so you can imagine how excited I was when so many of you entered the short story competition. Thank you all so much and thanks especially to Paul Howard author of the popular Ross O’Carroll-Kelly books (his latest is riding high in the best-seller list) for being our judge.

The winner of our €100 prize was Jennifer Betts with ‘The Lakeshore’, a moving story about loss and hope. Our runner up was George Kearns with ‘The Trolley Boy’.

I am sure there are many of you who will empathise with his tale of woe in the supermarket. This competition has been so successful that we are going to make it an annual event.

There are two articles in NewsFour) relating to alcohol. With the holiday season coming up it is good to reflect on the dangers of over-indulgence. There is nothing wrong with drink in moderation, of course, and I am looking forward to visiting Mulligans, the new pub on Sandymount Road as soon as I can.

I was just about to write that I will see you again around 10th December when I remembered that one of our short story entries had commented on my tendency to say ‘see you’. Chris Ostrowski wrote “Is Ann implying that the newspaper is the physical embodiment of the contributors with eyes of its own? Should I feel as I did as a child while watching television, thinking the people on it could see me just as I could see them? Should I then be fully clothed while reading Newsfour. Should I wave?”

By all means wave but keep your clothes on.
See you.
Ann Ingle

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