St Patrick’s Day can help bring out our local identity

I was in the attic, looking for something else, which is the best way to find anything, says Colm O’Regan.

(If you are looking for something, announce loudly that you’re not bothered if you ever see it again. This will coax it out of its hiding place.)

There it was: a video cassette. For younger readers, a video cassette is ... well, imagine if a Youtube video was banished from the internet by an evil wizard and condemned to spend eternity locked in a plastic prison. And, once it was played, forced to relive its life in reverse, at high speed, and constantly live in fear of having its contents accidentally wiped by the Sunday Game highlights of the 1994 Munster football semi-final.