IN 1992 my father fired myself, my brother and two cousins into a car as a long, wet Sunday yawned in front of us.

THE grandly-named Herbert Warren Wind touched down in Dublin for the first time in 1967.

WHEN I was 15-years-old or so I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to go on a school trip to Barcelona.

FIRST a confession.

1 THE Mary Byrne award for best female performance this year, happily, has been marked by our girls representing on the world stage.

“I WAS known as Piddlers for a long time in certain circles, you know.”

IT WAS said by Napoleon — Bonaparte, not Dynamite — that one should never watch a sausage or a law being made if “you want to keep your stomach about you”.

I was at the Arcade Fire gig in Dublin the night before the budget was unleashed.... songs and snowballs filled the air.

HUGH McILVANNEY, the great Scottish sportswriter, sketched a scene for his readers of a Saturday afternoon in an Old Trafford press box which coughed out cigarette smoke.