My track record for telling the pure truth here should be well established by now. Yet still there are doubters and naysayers who continue to allege that at the very least, Cormac elasticates the truth more than occasionally. I robustly deny that, of course.

I was as proud as punch a month ago, when the famed bard of Mologga, in Mitchelstown, asked me to be the weekend MC for the Mitchelstown Literary Festival, which opens in the town this Friday evening.