A 92-year-old writer has plotted a novel way for his neighbours to come together while staying apart during lockdown. Alan Grainger, who has been cocooning at his Co Dublin apartment since the pandemic began, invited his neighbours via email to "relay write" a murder mystery thriller with him.
Seven residents of Old Connaught House as well as Mr Grainger's three daughters each contributed a chapter to the novel entitled 'The Secrets of Beacon Court'. "When you get old and you are locked in because of this damn disease you sit and do a lot of thinking," explained Alan. "I remember the first line of the email.
It said 'I'm bored'," recalled Alan. "Relay writing, well, it's not unlike a relay race. You keep passing something on to the next