The day was on the slippery slope. There was no plan.

Colm O'Regan explains the Sunk Cost Fallacy and wonders why we're obsessed with completion

"Did you ever just catch yourself having an argument with your children on some minor rule that you just made up?"

It’s part of the overwhelming effort to brand EVERYTHING to make it more Christmassy. But you don’t need to make chocolate biscuits ‘festive’ or ‘seasonal’.

Sleep-deprived or not, it was nice to see their night-time selves for a while

For years I thought that having an attic that was up in a heap was just something that was a constant about life, like National Debt or moles.

Fruit flies know all our secrets. They’ve been in the fridge, the dishwasher, the toilet. Colm O'Regan is glad they're finally gone.

To install it was too expensive and disruptive and might actually damage 100-year-old structures that would need to be rebuilt. A bit like reforming the FAI.

"The sound of an audience talking a bit of shite. I don’t mean shite pejoratively. I just mean the nice kind, the kind of small talk that you make in the time available before the beginning of formal proceedings."

"The voicemail: A cultural institution that is severely on the wane. I’m just about old enough to check them and just about too young to leave them."