Colm O'Regan: Jingles jangle in our brains, let's create more of them

"The eighties seem to have been a golden age for jingles. Long before fast fashion, Penneys had a whole lot of things for Christmas."

“Poxy chores”. When you read that, there’s a strong chance you’ve lowered your chin, put on a Dublin accent and started singing like Ronnie Drew. You may even poked a brush at the ceiling.

When Monica rang Liveline last week to complain about a puppet canary, that looked like Ronnie Drew, who was warning people to check their ceiling monitors once a month, she wasn’t the first.