"Like a benevolent God allowing His people their callow pursuits, I stride through social media, feeling every bit the moral colossus, refusing to be drawn on music I don’t care for, food that’s not to my taste, or films I actively despise."

"68% of all people between 25 and 29 living with their parents is not just suboptimal on a human level – it signals something deeply, deeply wrong with the way our society is ordered."

"There are fewer moneymaking ads and more weirdly compelling taunts about how to do everyday things. I speak, naturally, of “you’ve been doing this wrong your entire life”."

Club action is moving to the centre lanes in the GAA and yet the shadow of inter-county continues to loom large. The work of an inter-county manager doesn’t have a pause button, not even when national fare has been packed up until next January.

Unless we commit to asking serious questions of those who want us to stop asking serious questions, we’ll do none of the things necessary to make sure future generations ever draw breath

"The collapse of adult contemporary cinema was already being lamented for a decade before covid lockdowns arrived and, it would seem, cemented the final death of a certain type of cinema-going experience."

'Flattening the complexity of the six counties’ divisions into religious lines has always been a bugbear of mine — not least because it’s so difficult to avoid'

"As a man of letters in want of a few quid, I submit myself to the powers that be, and offer my services to manage and oversee a few shows..."

"...my familiarity with this meme goes back a little further - I’ve been hearing of the litter box hoax for years, and my initial feeling was to be quite tickled it had made its way to somewhere I knew in real life..."

"...the company that owns Facebook and Instagram has spent two years pushing a free online virtual world to their user base of 4 billion people, and you have never used it, nor met anyone who has."