"...imagine acquiring a platform on which nearly every single famous person on the planet, from Lebron James to the Pope, was an active user - then imagine inducing nearly all of those people to definitely broadcast that they would never pay you to do so..."

"Knowing, or even suspecting, what was going to happen in that Succession episode was mildly annoying, sure, but that feeling left me the second my mental faculties adjusted to focusing on how it was done..."

"Confusing the All Blacks with the Black and Tans was, let’s be honest, a masterstroke - as was his choice to greet the fine spread in a Dundalk deli with the exclamation “I don’t know why my ancestors left!""

"The entire controversy over this artwork appears to be a deliberate, and almost laughably clumsy, attempt to distract from the fact that thousands of people in Ireland are currently facing eviction from their homes"

His was a smile that showed the teeth, and we’re all the poorer without it

"Opposition to the war, and all it stood for, was not just common but deep and widespread - whether from shoppers, students, parents, our teachers, or anyone we cared to ask."

Since I like being Irish, I now regard St Patrick's Day as a welcome vehicle for my long-held feelings of Hibernian Supremacy, and a handy excuse to push Irish culture on to unsuspecting, but usually grateful, friends here and online

'There’s not much I can say about Enoch Burke and his family that hasn’t been said better, and indeed funnier, elsewhere — there is, in fact, not much I can say about them that hasn’t already been said about the bubonic plague'

"...the most stirring responses are those from those who don’t just recognise the child staring back at them, but miss them dearly; the act of seeing their youthful sense triggering a flood of memories..."

"These cuts obviously happened for the same reason; so that millionaires could make their product more commercial to a world, and consumer base, that’s changed."