I knew I had to be prepared for visiting ye ould breeding grounds this week; County Galway can generate such cumbersome states of mind. Which is why I brought novels with me!

Me: This week on Questions and Answers, former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern…
Bertie Ahern: Good evening.

In much the same way that the queen of England thinks that her country is smell of fresh paint, so all professional cycle jockeys are thinking that France is smell of Domesto and ¡Cillit Bof! …

I am meeting a chum for lunch on Wednesday. He is one of my oldest chums and a jolly good one at that. Like most of my chums, mates, acquaintances and the other souls that …

As it’s Builders’ Holidays in Ireland at the moment (a nationally-recognised breather for those of us in the construction industry; that should give you some clue as to how engrained the practise of throwing together …

Vengeance is a dish.
No, that’s it. Just a dish. A big, scrumptious, dreamy dish, best served seven ways from sundown if that’s your fancy, with a cherry on top and one of those crisp caramel …

 
I hear you were a qualified doctor in the 60s. If medicine is a vocation, why did you stop practising?

Dorothy,
Sydney
It was simple maths Dorothy. A medical review board determined that patients were sixty-five times …

As is traditional at this time every year, the pious devout ordinary peoples of Spain are enjoying the Chasing of the Foreigners in Pamplona during the festival of Saint Fermin, a much-revered individual in these …