Beware the storm when all’s fair down Tipperary way

In Tipp there is a kind of learned instinct that there is a price to be paid for moments of great jubilation and that somebody will be around to collect any minute, writes Larry Ryan

The father was buried in Upperchurch. However the wiring works, you remember much of the detail. In Kinnane’s pub after, a couple of the locals were reflecting how they had missed the recent death of Dr Flynn Saunders, Lord have mercy on him, and lamenting the way he was taken so quick, just as himself and Sally were fierce happy.

They were talking, of course, about Home and Away and a controversial RTÉ move to briefly forego the daily 6.30pm repeat of the show during the summer of 2006.