Richard Hogan: How my nights out have changed now that I'm middle aged

'Out out' doesn't have the same allure as it used to

Richard Hogan. Photograph Moya Nolan

When I was a younger man, wearing younger man’s clothes, I enjoyed the old night out. 

Most Saturday nights I went ‘out, out’. That’s not some dark reference to Macbeth but how we Gen Xers described tripping the light fantastic. Did I cut a rug? Probably not. Cork in the mid ’90s wasn’t really a rug-cutting type of place.