I used to think love meant remembering everything. The exact corner where someone laughed, the colour of their coat, the name of the place where they cried into a paper napkin. I…
I met her because I was late, which is still the most Dublin thing that has ever happened to me. It was raining sideways outside Heuston Station, the kind of rain that…
I met Lena on a wet Thursday in November, the kind of Dublin evening where the sky seems to lower itself onto your shoulders. I was working late in a small print…
I used to tell people that I met him in a very romantic way, because the truth felt too ordinary. I said there had been rain on Grafton Street, a busker singing…
I used to think the best approach to love was to make yourself easy to keep. Don’t ask too much. Don’t show the nervous parts. Laugh when you are hurt, say “no…
I met Clara because of a story I made up. That sounds romantic now, but at the time it felt like being caught stealing someone’s coat. I was thirty-two, renting a small…
I met him because I was too proud to admit I was lost. I had moved to Dublin three weeks earlier, from a small town where every road knew my name, and…
I met him on a wet Tuesday outside Connolly Station, both of us pretending the rain wasn’t as bad as it was. He had a paper bag from a bakery tucked under…
I met Niamh on a wet Tuesday evening in Dublin, the kind of evening where the rain doesn’t fall so much as hang in the air and settle into your coat. We…
The last time I saw her was at Heuston Station, standing under the big clock with a green suitcase beside her and a paper coffee going cold in her hand. It was…