In my penultimate year at school I struggled through ‘Ulysses’ from first page to last. It was a ‘classroom cred’ thing. If you had read both ‘Ulysses’ and ‘Tristram Shandy’ you were considered a literary genius by your peer group. I can’t say the exercise was a pleasure, nor did ‘Ulysses’ bestow an everlasting reverence ...
Restaurant ReviewsAlas the Sunday Indo has banged my column for a couple of weeks (it happens to everyone from time to time – usually because an advertiser takes a late page. At the end of the day, revenue is revenue). This means that by the time I get round to telling you about Dunne’s new influx ...
Wine & DrinkBeing away in Budapest (more anon) I nearly missed the last issue of HQ Magazine in last Thursday’s Herald. I really do think that HQ is one of the better reads in the magazine/supplement sector and not only because they employ me as their restaurant critic. Last week’s was a cracking issue with a strong ...
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