Recruited as teenage spy by the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association

Like my father before me, I have been on the dry this November, with the exception of a 48-hour dispensation for the Connemara christening of a beautiful grandchild.
Recruited as teenage spy by the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association

As always, accordingly, November has been a sobering month, and I now have yet another startling and shocking confession to make to you all in this space.

Reading all the shocking reports of young people being brainwashed and radicalised by powerful spiritual movements, and looking back across all the Novembers to my own teenage long ago, I am shuddering at the realisation that I also was radicalised and brainwashed by a powerful religious force in my teens.

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