Funny how things have turned for Tipp

Call it Tipperary’s Sliding Doors moment.

For readers with fuller lives, the reference is to a 1998 film which begins with a young woman in London — Gwyneth Paltrow at her drippiest and most complacent – both catching and failing to catch a Tube train and the parallel narratives that arise from this banal event/non-event.

She meets and doesn’t meet a new guy; she does and doesn’t catch the old boyfriend cheating; she starts/doesn’t start her own company; she spouts about the benefits of a macrobiotic diet, annoys the entire world and “consciously uncouples” from her husband/spouts about the benefits of a diet of Bulmers and chips and battered sausages, is adored by the world and marries Leo Varadkar or Mick Wallace or the Pope orsomeone. And so on.