Never meet your heroes? Here's how we got on when we met ours

Paul Howard, Dustin the Turkey and others recall their encounters with high profile people they admire 

Paul Howard, author 

We were in the queue in Brown Thomas about five Christmas Eves ago, and Colm Meaney was sighing loudly behind us. I love Colm, especially in Intermission. I watch that film three times a year! I turned around, and he seemed really hassled. I said “You alright, Colm?” He replied: “I’ve been sent out with a list of stuff to get, and it’s driving me mad. I’ve just come from a shop called ‘Argos’. Do you know that shop?” I said I did.