Sir After a full week of pleading, I convinced my father to bring me to the Munster final between Cork and Limerick in 1947. It was on in Thurles, but that wasn’t where we were headed.
Sir My two friends arrive every year in early April, and their companions come some weeks later. It has been the same routine year in, year out, and I have eagerly looked forward to their arrival each year. I am talking, of course, of the swallows coming to my farmyard after travelling thousands of miles across oceans and deserts, fighting their way through storms, thunder and lightning.