Colm O'Regan

Piseogs were a rational response to an uncertain world. What’s interesting is that after all the science and explanations, many of us still believe in them in some shape or form

I’m in a darkened room about to watch a 60-tonne Dreadnoughtus headbutt another 40ft-high Dreadnoughtus over mating rights while David Attenborough makes it sexy

I'm probably too old to do a wall chart. But it's tempting. Round about this time of the year, every four years, a child aged between six and 86

Ulysses. I was the biggest cliché in reading. The gentlest hint of dog-ears on the first 10 pages, but otherwise unbothered by buttery-toast fingers.

Sentence-final particles are the term linguists use where people put unnecessary words at the end. In Dublin, it’s ‘but’. In Cork, it’s ‘like’

Lookk at them. With their sunburn and drinking and singing. Making noise. The Scots in Boston and now Miami. Disgusting.

This is surely the time of the algorithm “I swear my phone is listening to me.” But it isn't. It doesn't need to. It's watching you buy stuff.

We mightn't make the third week of a heatwave but still, it feels like something has shifted in the national psyche that goes beyond the weather itself.