We are often mistaken for being offended by terrible Irish accents, but personally speaking, it’s not that I’m fragile or hurt by them. I’m just annoyed to see something we do well being done badly

Linguists, cryptographers, and, for the last 200 years, poets have all taken nonsense very seriously

If you find that your unlucky days have snuck up on you without warning, and you prefer the continental way of life, maybe drop Friday the 13th altogether

The 2020s have brought a trend called ‘cursive singing’, which is a tendency for the singer to absolutely tear the hole out of vowels

Yes, the book you want is there, but you’ll have to wait until the other person brings it back. When is that? When they’ve finished with it. It’s good to be told you have to share, as a grown-up

You would wonder about the so-called bardic geniuses who came up with these seanfhocail. It feels like it was just lads sitting on ditches watching everyone go by

It's all in a name, and the more Irish, the better

The people who put A Thing On In January, who light a candle rather than curse the darkness are to be lauded. In fact, they should be accorded the highest informal honour possible in Ireland — 'Fair F*cks to Them'

Do you remember Stories for Eight Year Olds — and its companions, stories for under-fives, five-year-olds, six, going all the way up to the over-10s

I know about as much about house music as a dog knows about a modem, but I know what I like