Book review: The Village Effect

by Susan Pinker

IT didn’t have a highfalutin term to describe it back then, but when I was younger, social interaction took many simple forms, some that even included a trusty copy of the Irish Examiner.

Six days a week, either my Granddad or his neighbour, who lived across the road, would buy ‘de paper’ in the local creamery, read it thoroughly in the first half of the day and then sometime in the afternoon would bring it over to the other house.