He proposed to me on a wet Friday evening in Dublin, under the trees in St Stephen’s Green, where the rain had made the paths shine like dark glass. I had been…
I used to think an engagement ended with one big betrayal, something loud enough for everyone to hear. Mine ended during a five-day holiday in Dublin, in the quiet space between a…
I met her on a wet Thursday outside Whelan’s, the kind of night when Dublin looks like it has been varnished in rain. She was laughing under a broken umbrella, trying to…
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…