Let’s put our failures in the past, or the future will never be what it used to

"...their stranglehold over the culture has now gone and they exist mostly as portable landfill, tethered to us for eternity..."

I know plenty of people who scroll TikTok, but I know almost nobody who actually posts there, because everyone I know is, like me, too old and thick to adapt to the always-on, face-forward, bright and shiny world of TikTok culture

Lately, being a football fan has meant having to swallow a lot of bitter pills, some so revolting you start to wonder if each compromise is even worth it

'Whether you use Twitter or not, this column would not exist and neither would most of my work, in its current form. The same could likely be said for a handful of other people in this newspaper, and most others.'

"The meal at my sister’s wedding was beautiful but, back in the day, food was in its infancy as an enjoyable substance, so dinner was of the beef-or-lamb variety, albeit with a spread of cocktail sausages and chips for the younger kids."

Debate is sensible if muted ... in a country [Ireland] where the spectre of “global warming” has, for some people, the ring of being threatened with a good time

I don’t know if it’s necessary, or even desirable, for public figures to be relatable, but it seems increasingly important to them

Dreams are overrated according to Séamas O'Reilly

I thought it was weird that the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money, but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to remove their money