SIR,

An open letter to Ms Kellie Beirne.

Dear Kellie Beirne, although as yet

Unhappily we haven't met,

I see you as some Sweet Colleen,

Arrived but lately on the scene,

A Stranger in an Alien Land,

Where things are hard to understand.

O Kellie Beirne (or Ceallagh Byrne?),

You've such an awful lot to learn!

Let one acquainted with their ways

Conduct you through the tricky maze.

My Consultation Process shows

What every Beacon Reader knows,

But let us publish it again

In Letters Large, in Language Plain:

The People of this Border Town

Hereby declare and set it down

In Black and White, in White and Black:

MONMOTHIANS WANT THEIR MARKET BACK!

Sibylla Coomey

(Monmouth)