My gateway drug was The Third Policeman, as read aloud by Patrick Magee on the wireless in 1986, a feat all the more remarkable for a man that was, quite appropriately, dead at the time.

There's two kinds of dark suckers. you've met the second kind. It's always saddened me I've been to Dublin 3 times and never made it to Dalkey.

I want to pay a courtesy caul..