Colm O'Regan: Late Late Toy Show star Jacky McCullough put Dripsey on the mention map

It never fails to thrill: The Mention. Whenever the name of my home village gets is printed or said in the media, my heart gives a flutter.

Before social media, small villages and townlands weren’t mentioned as much. There were simply not so many places to mention them. There was the paper, the telly and maybe someone might write a local history. Or on signposts. And there weren’t even that many signposts for Dripsey. Its location was on a need-to-know basis. And not many needed to know.