How a poor ould fella navigates his health

In this exclusive extract from the new book by Declan Lynch and Arthur Matthews, Notes from a Lost Tribe: The Poor Ould Fellas, we find out how a poor ould fella navigates his health

At any given time, a poor ould fella will be in need of some kind of operation. He will hear it called a ‘procedure’ by the medics but to him it will always be an operation, and it will always take a lot longer to be performed than would be ‘optimal’, as the lads in the white coats might put it.