It's neither right nor proper that the lively post-hurricane climatic unpleasantness currently threatening Galway is called Storm Ernesto.
Maybe it should be called Storm Englebert. Or anything else, but not Ernesto. For if you happen to go through the university district of Galway City (the West Bank, as you might say Corrib-wise) there'll be the occasional lamp-post with a sign affixed, reminding us that the one and only Che Guevara is one of theirs, for Dr Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was descended from Patrick Lynch of Galway.
Once upon a time (and it was a very long time ago) Patrick Lynch of Galway was press-ganged into the Royal Navy, but escaped and made his way to Argentina on the captured French ship Heroina, which he had been meant to sail to the nearest English port.
Making the hop to Buenos Aires was a shrewd career move, for in time the Lynch family hit the jackpot, with their estates by the River Plate extending to 180,000 acres. Patrick Lynch became Patricio Lynch. And the distingished Argentine families to which his descendants were directly related included the Guevara and Frers dynasties.
Which of course means that Che Guevara and yacht designer German Frers Jnr are cousins. Ernesto Guevara went one way. German Frers went another. But when the latter designed his own dream-boat, she was called Heroina.