Bernard O'Shea: 10 ways to work on your patience (because I'm the least patient person in Ireland)

From losing it over buffering Wi-Fi, to surviving queues without combusting, here's one impatient man’s guide to finding calm in chaos.

Bernard O'Shea, comedian.

In a dusty old classroom in the west of Ireland, the inaugural "PA" (Patience Anonymous) meeting has just started. 

A man in his mid-forties stands up and declares, "Hi, I'm Bernard, and I'm here to talk about my patience—something I've never had. If patience were a sport, I'd be the lad on the sidelines shouting at the ref for taking too long to blow the whistle.