Boy Wonder: Tales from the Sidelines of an Irish Childhood by Dave Hannigan is a poignant comic memoir about fathers and sons, sport, and the rites of passage that shape every childhood. In this chapter, Hannigan recalls the fragile joys of Subbuteo.

A Cork man who was jailed yesterday for indecently assaulting two young brothers in the 1980s “batted off our accusations like they were nothing”, one of the victims said yesterday.