On my usual cycle about town, seen Jeff Shannon who was enjoying one of the nice days we had last week, was in jovial form and did not mind my asking for a photograph. He knew my late grandfather same name as myself, Jeff also liked to go to the Dog track, my late grandfather loved the track, had his own dogs, and worked there part time to check dogs in, as everybody knows the track is closed and will never be what it was again, but Jeff remembers the days when it was very busy and good times. Jeff was born in County Cork reared Carlow and sixty years in County Longford working most of that with McLoughlin as a wood machinist, stair cases window frames. Met his lovely wife Mary while he was in County Carlow and her good self from Kilkenny.