Most humbling thing? Eating your words.

“Truly humbling,” say some award-winners on receiving their gong. I call bullshit, writes Colm O’Regan.

Winning awards isn’t humbling. Most humbling thing? Eating your words.

The greatest word-binge is when you eat the reams of promises you made about parenting before you were a parent. And the main course for that meal of your own childfree opinions? Eating out.