27 AUGUST 1965, Page 7

UP the Creek

I see that in a story this week on the new

nelo-Irish extradition treaty, Time describes the Island of saints and scholars as 'only a three-hour

:errs/ ride' away from Britain. Some ferry. Ross-

,late or Dun Laoghaire may be only three hours 0 'morn Fishguard or Holyhead, but I was told "1Y the other day of a wild crossing from Fish- 8ttard with winds—so it seemed—of typhoon Intensity, with pitching and rolling that even reduced the boyos gallantly • rendering 'Mother Machree' in the second-class 'lounge' to a quiver-

jelly. Only a U-boat wolf-pack attack was

II r.russing in this saga—it was with a sense of divine 11 Intervention that the passengers welcomed the Concrete pier at Rosslare.