A small word links a book about Ballyhoura, broth bits in Croom, and a scribble on the inside cover of a 70-year-old dictionary — and I couldn't be more pleased to find this connection

I don’t think I can get across to my family how important this moment is... I need to take a photo of the car’s odometer at 299,999, and again further down the road at 300,000

There is no point in sneering at motorists for their choice. But equally there is no benefit in motorists treating cyclists badly.

And don't forget about deathbait and anxietybait — this stuff is happening because the system is broken. We’ve never had so much ‘content’, we’ve never paid less for it and we’ve never been more discontented

After a match like that, janey, you’d go to an extra Confession to see what the priest thought about Hungary’s time-wasting

How dare things happen so quickly!  Ten years since the marriage equality referendum, 20 years since Brokeback Mountain, 25 since the Nokia 3310. 30 years since Naff-Naff jackets, 40 years since Cork 800

For years, a winning smile has been a sign of health, wealth, success, and discipline. Crooked, discoloured teeth seem associated with bad living and untrustworthiness on TV

"It’s absurdly late in life. I should have done it earlier. I just never got around to learning how to swim out of my depth."

"Greek symbols mean it’s tricky, someone is obsessed, they think of something and run to an obscure book and open it to the page, a hot woman is the only one who “gets them”, the jocks are stupid."

"I’m in my charity shop era now, and that era ends when the nursing home rings my next of kin to say I’m out of underpants and would they mind popping into Dunnes to pick up a few bits?"