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Mick Staunton (c.1924/1938-2017) – Fruit Seller – Kinvara, County Galway
I still don’t know what age he is. Initially he said he was eighty-two. Then he said he was only codding and he’d be sixty-eight in July. And, finally, he said he’d been doing the market thing for at least sixty-five years. It’s the way he is. He talks in riddles.