Is it time to revise your irrational dislikes?

WHAT’S your one? I bet some of you have one. A thing or a person you’ve taken a dislike to. A dislike not backed up by any facts or evidence. Mine was Macnas — the Galway street theatre group. And I was wrong. Fierce wrong, writes Colm O’Regan

It was probably jealousy, a bit of Galway-envy.

To any readers who may not be familiar with the concept of Galway, think of it more as a settlement bound together by festivals. On last count, the only weekend in the year in Galway that doesn’t have a festival was the third weekend in February and that’s largely dominated by workshops preparing for the great End of February Festival. Galway is the pub that Ireland shelters in against the Atlantic.