FEATURE: Could you survive without a phone?

Louise Roseingrave invited her friends to the local for a game of ‘don’t touch the phone’

FEATURE: Could you survive without a phone?

AT midnight in the Harbour Bar in Leap, West Cork, the five of us reached for our phones. For three hours, we had engaged in a social experiment to resist those phones, stacked in the centre of the table.

The person who reached for their phone first had to pay with a round of drinks. We thought it would be easy, but it wasn’t, indicating how attached we’ve become to these clever pieces of plastic.

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