Learner Dad: Our eight year old is eating up books at the moment ... the beauty of reading is the sound of silence

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IT'S never good news when you get a phone call from a landline. The best you can hope for is that it’s someone ringing up to subtly suggest that your house will blow up if you don’t pay them €99 to service your gas boiler.

So my heart sank a little yesterday when I got a call from an 021 number, which my phone tells me was from Cork/Coachford/Kinsale. (I always wonder how Coachford got in there.)