The Inside Back

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.

The applicant’s exam to All Souls College, Oxford University, is generally considered the most difficult exam in the world.

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 Malahide, Portmarnock and Drogheda commuters whose arduous journeys to the office now take approximately 120 more seconds and include about a dozen more people than usual.

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 erased my account.

By the time this column appears, the British general election will be well over.

As an American living in Ireland, I probably make transatlantic flights more often than most.

Last week, a shortlist for the best Irish book of the decade was announced.

I travelled to Mayo for the Easter weekend.

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN last week set a record by crashing together two 3.

I’m going to the theatre this weekend, for the first time in a while.