I COME from a long history of gamblers and alcoholics who would have taken the eye out of your head and come back for the eyelashes, on a bad day. (On a good day, they would have loved you to bits.) Naturally, when I leaned into my sweetheart’s ear on my wedding day and whispered, ‘For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, all the days of my life’, I of course didn’t mean a word of it — well, at least not the ‘for poorer’ bit.

Eddie Rocket's is to create 30 new jobs in Naas, Co Kildare, with the opening of a new restaurant.

The 40th Eddie Rocket’s outlet was officially opened today at Shamrock Plaza in Carlow town, creating 30 jobs.