Clubbing together for common cause
On one level I didn’t want to overhear them say they were a couple of academics investigating Irish social attitudes; on another level I didn’t want to be seen hanging around outside the ladies’ loo. A fella could get a name.
My first concern looked unfounded from the start. Even total-immersion anthropologists don’t dress in head-to-toe branded sportswear, and the two ladies I’d seen — a mother and daughter, at a guess — were clad in Clare gear from top to toe.