Redhead

Haven't come across the red headed man in a long time. He's making room for the Mersey tug Brocklebank on Howth's West Pier. I do go to Howth regularly to seek him out and see how he's doing. He traveled the world busking for a couple of years after Harley Street specialists told him his job as a cloth cutter was killing him....
He disappeared off my radar for a few years then as I struggled to raise a family and by the time I found him again he was a psychiatric nurse working with drug addicts. The madness he encountered on a daily basis rubbed off to some extent and he had to leave before they would have to consider whether to lock him up. He started a temporary job on a six month contract and twenty years later he's still working for the harbour master.

I should visit there more often to see him.... He's my younger brother .....just saying