Colm O'Regan's fictional character Ann Devine is back in a second book 

After the runaway success of his Irish Mammies books, based on his parody Twitter account, Irish Examiner columnist Colm O’Regan's first foray into fiction adopted the same observational approach, focusing on the humour of small-town Irish life.

His follow up, Ann Devine, Handle with Care, is published on Thursday by Transworld Publishers. Here, we publish an extract.