Colm O'Regan: 'You have not seen a happier man than a man perched on top of a 1966 Massey'

I thought of Battlestar Galactica while at sundry mid-Cork St Patrick’s Day parades. To be clear, it wasn’t the first thing I thought of. The first was yet another pang of realisation about time passing

Colm O'Regan: "In a hyper-connected world where the supply of so many things is at the whim of a billionaire and his mad king and their buddy the dictator, you could imagine these tractors and cars still working once there is a drop of fuel in a barrel somewhere." Picture: Chani Anderson.

I thought about Battlestar Galactica at the Ballincollig St Patricks Day parade and the Dripsey vintage tractor rally. As you do. Battlestar Galactica is a military space opera type thing about evil robots that want to exterminate humans in a galaxy far far away. 

The two versions of it bookend two parts of my TV life. The original broadcast on Saturdays in the mid-1980s was the first spacey thing I ever watched. It was noteworthy because it starred Face from The A-Team.