Plenty of people begin the training, but few stick it out for the year or two necessary to become proficient.

When the lazarhouse 'chanced to come down' under Edward VI, no doubt the grantee of the lazarhouse got rid of the obligation to provide this refreshment, and transferred the broad-bottomed bowl to the neighbouring publichouse, where for two centuries afterwards it occasioned, in the procession to Tyburn, the reve so graphically described by Mr. Ainsworth.

At the end of the summer, Simon the Radhanite paid another surprise visit to Fernshanz.

One recently deselected Sinn Féin assembly member, Davy Hyland in Newry and Armagh, has already quit the party in protest.