Do you remember when powercuts were so common you hardly remember them at all?

Inniscarra Dramatic Society was putting on a production of… well no one is clear to this day what it was. They hired a man called Suni to teach some singing and dancing for a variety show, writes Colm O’Regan

Such is my faith in it, I blamed everything else first: my 10-year old craptop, its power cable, the trip-switch.

(As an aside, from the day you become aware of the trip-switch, “maybe it’s the tripswitch” will become one of your most-used sentences. I think if we can find the trip-switch inside our minds, we’ll fix everything.)