"And yet there have been some people — right-wing people, mostly but not exclusively in possession of testicles — who have been triggered. Triggered!"

We’re the same age, Sinéad and I, and so grew up in the same Ireland, the one that allowed all the horror to happen to women and girls and babies and children

We need our protestors. They are the ones who will instigate change, while the rest of us are busy looking at our phones or being distracted by this week’s scandal

"He doesn’t seem to like being touched anywhere near his hind legs, they say. Neither would you, I think, if the last time anyone spent any time there was to castrate you."

"What began in a single field on the famous Glastonbury ley line is now the size of Bath - what used to be genuinely anarchic has grown into a cultural institution without losing its hippie heart or ethics"

Outdated and unfair, it's time we left the Leaving Cert in the past. 

I’m off to Glastonbury. Not as a punter, or a journalist — but as a volunteer.

“Just don’t think about it,” my daughter says.She says that if she allowed herself to think about the state of the world and all that’s happening in it, she would go mad

"The poor rich kids grow up with attachment issues, substance issues, narcissistic issues — all the issues. So while the neglect isn’t untreated nits or Pot Noodle for dinner, it can still involve depression, anxiety, and addiction — just with chauffeurs and maids."

"It’s like watching a terrible time-travel movie, where ordinary people are being dragged backwards to an era long consigned to the history books."