Séamas O'Reilly: Sticky wickets, mental somersaults, and letting people enjoy things

"Like a benevolent God allowing His people their callow pursuits, I stride through social media, feeling every bit the moral colossus, refusing to be drawn on music I don’t care for, food that’s not to my taste, or films I actively despise."

Séamas O'Reilly doesn't like cricket. He doesn't love it either.

As a child, I achieved zen via cricket on TV.  This was not because I enjoyed it. On the contrary, I derived almost no enjoyment from it whatsoever. 

This was largely because I was unfamiliar with the sport — it did not have an august tradition in 90s Derry — and found its rules as inscrutable as an Italian soap opera.