Funny man’s big bang theory stands test of time

ON the RTÉ television programme, Urban Tales, a few weeks ago, presenter Robert Vance made a connection between the German aerial bombing of Belfast and later Dublin in 1941.

I would like to put forward another connection of a somewhat different sort. In his Correspondence With Myself some years ago, well-known Belfast comedian Frank Carson recalled a period when he lived in Dublin.

Frank’s mother, Josie Agusta, was from Townsend Street, off Pearse Street in Dublin 2.