Leo Callanan: Reading can be fun, I promise

Reading for pleasure is something young men tend to lose as they move into adulthood

Postman Paul Fitzpatrick with his helpers Joe Elliott and Tadgh Cannon as An Post aims to deliver over 40,000 books to children in hospitals, care settings, and direct provision centres across the country for World Book Day. Picture: Maxwells

Three weeks into the dark of January, I received a text from my best friend. It was five paragraphs long, detailing his thoughts about the book I had got him for Christmas, which he had just finished.

The feeling of being understood and seen in that moment was greater than the dopamine hit someone might feel seeing several tags in the comments of an Instagram reel.