Ithink of Warrenpoint as a town, not as a village. In my private diction-

ary a village is a community sur-
rounded by fields: The people are
farmers, or they serve farmers and

their families as shopkeepers, nurses, doctors, teachers, priests. At Sun- day Mass the men wear caps, not hats, and after Mass they stand around the church to chat, gossip, or stare at the hills. A town, small or large, is not dependent on the, land that surrounds it; it opens on a differ- ent world. Tullow, in Co...