I’ve never used it. Since I was a child, I’ve always been telling myself, ‘remember this, you need to remember this’. I’ve lost three brothers in the last few years. I’m the eldest of a family of 15, so I was the groundbreaker. I’m an agnostic; I think it would be absurd to call myself an atheist, which seems to me entirely too self-regarding.

Source: The Irish Times March 22, 2026 10:31 UTC