What a dig! There's nothing like wetland archaeology for that immediately tangible sense of the past. I just love seeing cut marks on the timbers, imagining the craft and labour.

There was one little yew peg at Kilbegly that was so immaculately shaped, it really conjured the person who made it!

I became so frustrated with this that I swapped it for a wired ergonomic mouse. Much better!

I remember being in the car with the whole family, queueing for an age to see the Blackpool Lights as a youngster.

The Las Vegas of the 1980s working class.

They brought that in here in Tipperary just in time for our first. Such a lovely, simple idea that made you feel like the state actually welcomes their new little citizens

Absolutely. I have excavated the remains of children before and I found it difficult enough, even though they were well over a thousand years old. This is another order altogether.

Boar is a bit like that, slightly fuller flavour than pork. They eat it a lot in parts of Italy, it's really nice.

Definitely like to try some reconstructive experimental archaeology to try the Neolithic feasting! Had beer brewed in a fulacht fiadh and that was terrific, so they'd go well together

Good chance boar were brought to Ireland by people in the Mesolithic, but there's better things to do with a pig than coddle.

Just read a really interesting paper on massive feasts at Newgrange c.2500BC, where everyone was eating pigs that had been specially fattened on nuts to be extra tasty.

They almost certainly were. And you can be sure that rogue Sigtrygg was boiling the shite out of them.

Listen, Brian Boru and all those brave Munster warriors didn't march for nothing

At the very least, you'd never be able to watch old footage of DJ Carey charging up the field without laughing.