Because he lived in Enniskillen.

If Siemens announce staggering profits for this financial year, a lot of it will be thanks to their seemingly perpetual contract to tinker about with Enniskillen’s “traffic management systems”. Underlying all the hustle and bustle is a fundamental assumption that if they pretend pedestrians and cyclists don’t exist then we soon won’t. They’re just in the process of removing the only pedestrian crossing on the immensely long main street (so long that it has six different names). Sometimes I feel like a genetic throwback, one of the few runt-like human creatures in Northern Ireland who has unaccountably failed to grow the usual metal and plastic carapace.