Séamas O'Reilly: The good old days were bad old days too

'Getting nostalgic for the Troubles is merely an absurdist stretching of that point, and a salutary lesson in the complacency of rose-tinted history'
Séamas O'Reilly: The good old days were bad old days too

A screenshot of the tweet with fake photo of Noam Chomsky and an elephant in Belfast. Picture: Séamas O'Reilly

The solo trip to the Lansdowne bar had taken me some distance away from my final location, and I was running quite late. 

Worse, despite not having even had a drink in said pub, I’d not thought to use the bathroom before I left, and there were no taxis to be found, which left me walking down the entire length of the Antrim road in Belfast positively boiling for a wee.

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