Colm O'Regan: For a blissful couple of days, your children are out ambling in the middle of the road

It’s like it was during the Emergency. But with bananas and clothes, that fit

Comedian and Irish Examiner columnist Colm O'Regan pictured in Cork. Picture: Denis Minihane.

The children are in bed. I’m sitting out the back, in beautiful weather, slurping a tin of beer and piling into the lentil crisps, gazing into the endless forest. (Well, endless until you get to Houses #300 to #330.) Heaven.

Who would have thought we’d all be going on holidays to Longford? Lots of people presumably, but even more now. Center Parcs is gradually seeping into the cultural landscape. Forming memories for today’s children to do nostalgia memes about in 2035.