Alife lived without an obsession may seem a calm, balanced thing but it’s hard not to think the converse is also true.

DURING the week RTÉ televised a fascinating documentary on of the discovery in Dublin of the priceless Caravaggio painting, The Betrayal of Christ. Its whereabouts had been a mystery for more than 200 years before it was found hanging in the dining room of the Jesuits’ house on Leeson Street, where it had been for some 60 years.

ALMOST museum-like this Georgian home and grounds on Main Street in Castlemartyr, Co Cork, is a real find.

AT the 1975 Munster football final in Killarney the much-fancied Cork team were being hammered, and many Cork supporters began to bail out early.