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."

"We had it too good for so long. Clicking on a deal for three euro and getting a piece of plastic on Ali Express. "

Listen, there was no one going on about carving turnips until they started seeing pumpkins for tuppence halfpenny in Lidl

Squid Game has me thinking deeply too. Thinking about the lengths I’d go to save my own life when there was nowhere to run. Who would I betray?