What can I say? What can you say?What can we say? Despite being married to a Mayo woman I have never felt any great affinity to Mayo GAA footballers. But yesterday – have you ever experienced a sporting high to match it? Thank God Trump wasn’t around – he’d have been elbowing in to be photographed with the Mayo All-Ireland champions. (My wife is still suspicious that it may be an elaborate hoax.
A dual-language sign in Ballinderry has been defaced some 60 times since it was put up, at the request of the people of the area. What is it that motivates people to react with hostility when the Irish language appears to have admirers?
And that’s about it. Topics small in number, profound in their examination. And by the way – have you found that other person yet who doesn’t know about Pat and myself, and alerted them to the shameless joy we deliver twice a week?


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