The Man I Couldn’t Stop Thinking About After One Kiss
I met him on a wet Thursday evening outside Kehoe’s, when Dublin had that silver look it gets after rain, all shining footpaths and taxi lights. I was trying to open an…
I Stayed in a Toxic Relationship Because I Was Afraid to Start Again
I used to tell people we were “just passionate.” That was the word I gave it when he shouted at me outside a pub in Rathmines because I had laughed too much…
The Girl Who Always Chose Someone Else
I met Aoife on a wet Thursday outside Whelan’s, both of us pretending we weren’t too old to be queuing in the rain for a band we only half knew. She had…
The Girl Who Always Chose Someone Else
I met Aoife on a wet Thursday outside George’s Street Arcade, both of us sheltering under the same shop awning, pretending the rain might suddenly become reasonable. She had a paper bag…
She Loved Me Until I Told Her the Truth
I met Aoife on a wet Thursday outside St Stephen’s Green, both of us waiting for the same late bus and pretending the rain wasn’t getting in under our collars. She had…
She Loved Me Until I Told Her the Truth
I met Aoife on a wet Thursday evening outside Connolly Station, both of us standing under the same useless stretch of shelter while rain came at Dublin sideways. She had a broken…
My First Love Came Back After Fifteen Years
I was twenty-one when I first loved Aoife, though at the time I thought I was older than that in every way that mattered. We met outside a lecture hall in Rathmines,…
The Divorce That Finally Set Us Free
On the morning our divorce was finalised, I wore the same navy coat I had worn to our registry office wedding twelve years earlier. It was missing a button and smelled faintly…
I Couldn’t Forget the Woman I Met at Forty Foot
I met her on a Tuesday morning at the Forty Foot, which is not the kind of place I ever expected to meet anyone. I was there because my doctor had told…
We Were Lovers Every Summer in Dingle
I met him in Dingle when I was twenty-three and convinced my life in Dublin was only a temporary thing. I had a summer job pulling pints in a small pub off…