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variant is expected to hit hard, but with fewer cases expecting to need hospital treatment, some experts warn another lockdown and its economic impact is just not worth it. a letter, posted to a man in northern ireland with no surname or address on the envelope, butjust his first name and a 57 word biography, has managed to find its way to the right place. our ireland correspondent emma vardy has the story. feargal, lives across the road from the spar. his ma and da used to own it. no house number, no street name, a few things much more personal than that. the first thing i noticed was the amount of detail on the envelope and basically, my biography. moved to waterford after he got married. despite nothing more than a short story and half a postcode, yesterday this letter found its way straight to feargal lynn. i laughed so much. right through it all,
an old friend in belfast, who perhaps could have found out his address but thought this way was a little more fun. we were talking about the pandemic, we were talking about mental health and the need to brighten the mood a bit. did she actually expect it to reach you? i think she just took a punt. plays guitar and used to run discos in the poker hall. it happened to be that feargal s local postman was also a childhood friend. we ve had some strange addresses over the years, but this is the most bizarre of them all. the first line, feargal who lived across from the spar. the number of times we played in his front garden as wee boys, i knew right away who it was. this could give other people ideas, if they don t know an address. oh, that would be a nightmare! and inside the letter, just a cheery hello and a recipe for coleslaw that feargal had been asking about, but it meant much more than that. there s so much letters these days that s meaningless, it s financial, it s a rates deman
daniela relph, bbc news. usually you need an address to post a letter but one that made its way to a county antrim care workerjust needed his life story instead. feargal lynn, from cushendall, said he was amazed to find an envelope scrawled with a 57 word mini biography instead of a street address had found its way to him. well let s find out some more from the man himself. feargal lynn joins us from cushendall. appropriately enough just over the road from the post office. what did it say on the front of this letter? the front of the envelope was my biography from my youth. it began, you used to live across the road from the spa, his father s name is joseph, mother s mary, they used to own it, got married and moved to