The efforts of Connell Cannon, cattle-dealer, Donegal, to secure a decent railway service for the county, continued into 1887, when he appeared as a witness before the Railway Commission in Londonderry.

In his evidence to the Commission, he refers to having put his son, also Connell, in charge of railing two lots of cattle from Druminin to Strabane and then taking them on to Greenore.

A big responsibility for Connell Junior, born in 1867, this writer’s great-great-great uncle, who would have only been in his teens at the time!