Sometimes you have to just stop and think: isn’t life astounding? The infinite complexity, the multiplicity of things happening at the same time all of which can combine to influence you.

One of my earliest memories is sitting at the table, not wanting to eat it, and heaping sugar onto a rapidly cooling bowl of porridge watching it caramelise 

Basketball came to Deerpark CBS. Coached by an actual proper coach who wanted us to learn The Basics. And not ‘How to do that Thing Off The Telly’

I use social media so I can kid myself I’m doing something about trying to sell tickets and also to be occasionally funny online, but the negatives were outweighing the positives

Surely an institution like a biscuit, the defence of which was a key element of the 1916 Rising, deserves a course all by itself.

HOTM was a book you didn’t want to end. Written for children, re-read by them as adults.

"Eavesdropping in Ireland has always been difficult — we can be very cagey here, with built-in mechanisms to say nothing at all while still making a noise."

These days, every now and then, it’s picking up other people’s rubbish.

Before you know it, you’re asking ‘how are we for tea-lights?’ and you’re horsing the candle-slabs into the trolley.

You’re not missing anything. You have checked. Now you can get on with other things