A life less ordinary

In the 1960s, Damien Enright, now a respected writer and a husband of 40 years, was living the high life in Ibiza, he tells Joe McNamee.

ONLY a fool believes a good story is all about the ending, so there is nothing like a back-to-front story to really pull the rug from under your feet. So it is with the life story of Damien Enright, the nature writer, Irish Examiner columnist, writer/presenter of RTÉ’s Enright’s Way and author of the acclaimed A Place Near Heaven, A Year In West Cork.

His is a tale of sex, drugs, fraud, forgery and international drug-smuggling in 1960s Ibiza, as depicted in Damien’s new book, Dope in the Age of Innocence.