Electronic confetti is no substitute for the human experience

I’d put cutting out social media on a par with giving up smoking. The fruit of putting the gadget down is reading, enjoying live shows, and participating in real life, writes Gerard Howlin

WHAT I remember intensely this year, what struck me most was a dancer, a funeral, and a forgotten masterpiece of Irish writing.

Dance legend Valda Setterfield at 83, was King Lear in John Scott’s Irish Modern Dance Theatre’s production. It travelled to New York, and was won awards at Edinburgh. Setterfield danced with Merce Cunningham.