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"Road safety ads are still fairly hard-hitting but don’t compare to Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Man of the World’ which soundtracked the downfall of a man from Sunday League goal-scorer to culpable homicide."

Wouldn’t it be great to take back more roads for sport and messing. Redefine them a little bit.

"It was my mother’s habit to tap the barometer every morning and announce which way the weather was going."

"As if a Dealz Dermot Bannon came in and said “if we get rid of that tree, it will really open up that corner near the sofa”. And Dealz Dermot Bannon would be right."

"The bittersweetness comes in photos near the edge of towns. You see dotey fields with massive hedges and wild corners that are now ‘mews’ and ‘crescents’ and ‘ways’ that ‘views’ are named after the countryside townlands they swallowed up."

It’s never too early for children to learn that careers aren’t linear, that adults find transition hard

They weren’t making memories or mucking about with a stick and an intricate game. They were just plain Watching Telly. Watching the absolute sh-one-t out of it

"I think I’m at the cranky stage of life where I don’t have time for complicated metaphors or imagery and get annoyed when people don’t get to the point."

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