Colm O'Regan: Eating out was a welcome return to something I realised I hadn’t been doing in a while: people watching

"Eavesdropping in Ireland has always been difficult — we can be very cagey here, with built-in mechanisms to say nothing at all while still making a noise."

 

Chips. What would we do without chips? The fossil fuel industry gets all the rap for climate change but not enough attention is paid to small children who were PERFECTLY HAPPY TO EAT THAT THING YESTERDAY AND HAVE SUDDENLY GONE OFF IT WHATEVER’S THE MATTER WITH THEM.