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I shall force myself to re-engage with theatre
I’m going to the theatre this weekend, for the first time in a while. I’ve got tickets for the last show of Sodome, My Love at the Project Arts Centre, which was produced by the Rough Magic Theatre...
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Space/time revisited
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN last week set a record by crashing together two 3.5 trillion electronvolt proton beams, insuring that physicists will go on to discover more and more sh*t I don’t and...
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How to tell a story in the west of Ireland
I travelled to Mayo for the Easter weekend. My girlfriend, my one-year-old son, my mother (who was visiting from Texas) and I went to my girlfriend’s home house (a phrase I love for its silly sound)...
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The most democratic book award shortlist
Last week, a shortlist for the best Irish book of the decade was announced. Fifty books were chosen as nominees for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards’ prize. The winner will be chosen by popular...
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I have become the person I most fear
As an American living in Ireland, I probably make transatlantic flights more often than most. About a week or two before my departures, the nightmares begin: that I will be sat next to a couple with a...
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The politics of shallow spin
By the time this column appears, the British general election will be well over. As I write this, the third and final televised debate was last night. The consensus today is that David Cameron won,...
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Deactivating Twitter was the right thing to do
About a week ago, after an uneasy and ultimately humiliating experience on Twitter to help me publicise my fledgling business, I ‘deactivated’ – which is to say I not only stopped tweeting, but I...
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War in commuterland and human privacy
The arrival of the Clongriffin Dart station has been a welcome and transformative experience for me, but the most interesting development has been the severe disdain we Clongriffinites receive from...
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World’s hardest exam
The applicant’s exam to All Souls College, Oxford University, is generally considered the most difficult exam in the world. This year it’s losing its most difficult question, in part because it’s too...
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Enda survives to tell another tale
I have been known to have a pint or two in the same joint that Enda Kenny, who last week survived a confidence vote in his party, has been known on occasion to have a pint or two. Generally we...
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