Sir, – Emer McLysaght’s telling of the conventions of bingo had me laughing out loud (“My night at the bingo hall: I was waiting on one number. My heart was in my mouth”, People, January 17th).
My Aunt Vera, a devotee, brought me twice to play, and me a small child. No niceties then about underaged gambling. Maybe I was Vera’s mascot. I played on two consecutive weeks, each time winning £2. I vowed: no more. I had won but wouldn’t risk a third week in case my luck was out.
Vera was disappointed.
So much for the influence of significant adults on the young! – Yours, etc,
READ MORE
Pamela Anderson: ‘I felt like life was really like death for me’
Dr Lydia Foy: ‘I never got an apology actually. It would be nice to get one’
‘This is a disaster waiting to happen, and it will happen’: Ireland’s falling child vaccine rates
TJ McIntyre: Case involving Gript, X and the State is grist to the conspiracy theorist mill
NUALA GALLAGHER,
Dublin 15.
