Damien Enright: Noise and nature find it difficult to co-exist in the Far East

Dr Dorman's dispatches are a reminder of our good fortune, writes Damien Enright

MY FRIEND, Dr Dorman, the much-travelled marine biologist mentioned last week, is in China and opens his latest letter in an environment very different from that of fair Ireland, and salubrious west Cork, whence he hails. His dispatches are a reminder of our good fortune.