Book review: I Read the News Today, Oh Boy by Paul Howard

If you take the Sally Gap road out of the Co Wicklow village of Roundwood, you reach one of the most beautiful views in the whole of Ireland.

I’d been there often, looking down into a black lake fringed by a white sand beach before I learned that Luggala, home to the Guinness heirs was nestled there. And even after I’d met Garech Browne, the pony-tailed incumbent of Luggala, I hadn’t heard about his brother.

At least, not knowingly. I lived my teens to the backdrop of the Beatles, and knew the iconic track, ‘A Day in the Life’ by heart. However, I’d never heard that one Tara Browne had inspired the first lines.