Yeah. One none of us learn until we are older.

I was viscerally connected and at a distance. Me and ma had seen most of the games to qualify at lansdowne Road, including the Holland game, and we saw the friendly in Sunderland. But I was here in Scotland so I wasn’t getting the hour to hour meltdown.

They would likely cut Humphries out given his convictions for sexual abuse, but like I said, it will be interesting to see whether they look at that side of it.

Anyway, I trust the team. It will be interesting.

My ma has just informed me that she cannot relive the trauma again. Fair enough.

I am curious to see how the journalism side of it gets handled. I realise it’s not the story, but at the time Humphries and Kimmage were at the top of their game and Humphries IIRC published his his story first, and Kimmage lost it.

So much drama packed into such a small space of time.

Also, who will be playing Gary Breen?

Very important casting.

It's also a dialogue between two ideas about Irishness - one, Mick McCarthy's second-generation diaspora sentiment and gentleness, the other Roy Keane's angry, diamond-hard need to prove that there's more to Ireland than being the entertaining sidekick to the main event.

I did a keynote on this last month. Simple questions for the audience:
1) How did you learn what “good work output” looks like in your job?
2) what of those processes is your organisation using GenAI for?
3) In 5 years time, how will your equivalent have learned what “good work output” looks like?

Carrying you in a profoundly sexy way.

That image is so ridiculously on point, I do not have the ability to praise it enough.

He will appear in your moment of need.

These lists never include ‘moved the tracking screw on your tape deck to properly load a pirated game onto a computer.’ A valuable skill, lost forever.