One of the legends of Finn McCool tells of him being tricked by the Cailleach Beara who turns herself into a white deer and lures him into the volcanic lake at the summit of Slieve Gullion where he almost drowns. He gets out of this scrape, although I can’t remember how. I came across this photograph of a young man who decided to climb Slieve Gullion in the days when young men dressed in a suit and tie for all but the most casual of occasions. In my version of his story he stands astride the Cailleach Beara who has transformed herself into a giant rabbit resplendent with a crown, the lake swapped for a da Vinci-esque receding landscape. I know nothing of the context of the photograph and nothing of what became of him. Did he chase a white deer into the lake? Unlikely, I grant you but whatever, I don’t know his story so I’ve given him one of my own choosing.