Restaurant review: Moran’s On The Weir, Co Galway

OUR attitude to eating oysters can be pretty similar to the treaty some of us sign — metaphorically at least — when steering our children through religious rites of passage. 

We’re not always entirely convinced, some of us may even be disinterested, but we go with the flow rather than rock the boat and distance our children from their radiant classmates.

We play along, slaloming through our insincerity hoping not to feel too much like a fraud at the end of the day. When we’re in the oyster shack we order our half dozen even if we don’t always enjoy slurping salty mucus. We play our part in the collective’s adventures.