Newry Journal

Dear Agnes I’m relying on your discretion here, so don’t let me down. I made my first fortune a few generations  ago, and as well as money it gained me a fine filly.  She soon turned fat and flabby and distinctly self-centred and after a few years she scarpered, taking the childer and a large […]

  Dear Agnes, I am plagued by the worst neighbours in the world, who constantly host all-night orgies with thump-thump-thump ‘beats’ going until dawn …  

Dear Agnes Our neighbours across the way are the most insufferable snobs who have irked just about everybody in the neighbourhood. 

Dear Agnes, My doctor gave me a sealed letter to present to my hospital consultant. Curious both about his reading of my ailment and of his opinion of me, I opened it, read it and resealed it in a new envelope on which I typed the consultant’s name (this originally was hand-written). 

Dear Agnes You are a lady noted for your deep compassion.   Surely you, of all people, have a soft spot for Iris ?