I met him outside Whelan’s on a wet Thursday, the kind of Dublin rain that doesn’t fall so much as settle into your clothes and your mood. He was sheltering under the…
I met him on a wet Thursday outside a café in Dublin, both of us sheltering under the same useless awning while the rain came down sideways. He was funny in that…
I was twenty-nine, living in a damp little flat off Clanbrassil Street, and engaged to a woman who knew exactly how I took my tea. That sounds like a small thing until…
I met Conor on a wet Thursday in Dublin, the kind of evening where the buses hiss at the kerb and everyone looks a little defeated under their umbrellas. We were both…
I knew it was over before she said anything. It was in the way she kept both hands on the wheel after she parked, as if letting go might make the whole…
I was thirty-nine when I first realised grief could make a person invisible. My marriage had ended quietly, without smashed plates or dramatic confessions, just a man at the kitchen table in…
My wife started yoga because of her back. That is the part I kept repeating to myself, as if the whole story could be made ordinary again by returning to the first…
I sent the last text at 1:17 in the morning, standing under the yellow light outside Tara Street Station, with rain needling the back of my neck and the Liffey looking black…
I met him on a wet Thursday evening outside St Stephen’s Green, the kind of Dublin rain that doesn’t fall so much as settle into your bones. I was standing under the…