November makes it pretty real, doesn’t it? You can cod yourself through October but the eleventh month gives it to you straight. Rain. Wind. Cold.

Gaelic football, hurling, rugby, and soccer are full of sentences could cause panic within seconds

Off the top of my head, I can think of few others whose physical impact on the city remains so visible, says Michael Moynihan

It was noticeable during the week that one of the arguments being made in favour of continuing with an inter-county season in Gaelic games was that it would be good for people’s mental health

Whenever it suits politically, Leesiders can anticipate a leak about a train system which is just years away, writes Michael Moynihan

The exact quotation takes different forms, so it took a while to track down, but here it is. Asked about violence in his movies, the great French director Francois Truffaut told an interviewer he found violence “very ambiguous” in films.

In the house I grew up in there weren’t too many idols with life tenure in the pantheon of heroes, but one ordinary man from Dublin never had to worry about his position in that hierarchy.

If you are a connoisseur of urbane fiction of a certain type you may know his work as an editor with the New Yorker magazine

Cork will be poorer because of the closure of John Coffey’s Uneeda Bookshop

A footpath obstructed, a gateway blocked, an inconvenience caused...isn't it about time we were honest about it?