Tric Kearney: It's my life

Recently one of my children has spoken of the possibility of leaving home to work in Dublin. I was only a little younger than she is when I left to live in Cork.

I’m not sure if, at the time, I believed I’d never go back, but 27 years later I’m still here and while I’ll always speak of Dublin as ‘home’, I love living in Cork.

Our home is a village five miles from the city centre. Recently, I tried to explain to my children that in Dublin they would be classed as ‘culchies’.