RO'CK of Ages

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An essential collection of the very best Ross O' Carroll-Kelly columns from the Irish TimesBack in the day, if you' d mentioned the Grey Lady of D' Olier Street to me, I would have thought you were referring to one of the middle-aged divorcees I occasionally pulled on Disco Throwback Nights in Leggs. If you' d told me that I would one day spend thirteen years with that grey lady, I would have guessed it was some scheme I' d cooked up to try to get my hands on some elderly widow' s fortune. Except the Grey Lady in this case is the Irish Times. And thirteen years is exactly the length of time I' ve been pleasuring here - though for far less money than I' d have earned as a gigolo, believe me!We' ve been through a lot together in that time - from locked-in in Donnybrook to locked-down in Killiney. And now, for the very first time, the best of my weekly newspaper columns have been brought together in a collection. My adventures with the Mount Anville Moms WhatsApp group. My old dear' s fight to stop the Luas lines being joined. Honor' s infamous production of South Side Story. My old man' s court battles with Denis O' Brien. Sorcha' s efforts to force her banana bread on the neighbours. Ronan' s attempt to make it as a Mixed Mortial Orts fighter. Not to mention a Chinese exchange student by the name of Pang. From the sheer joy of taking the triplets to their first Ireland v England match, to the sheer misery of Kielys closing down. From the nerve-shredding excitement of trying, to rescue Joey Corbery from Limerick, to the pants-shitting tension of taking Honor to Electric Picnic. They' re all here!As the Grey Lady herself would no doubt say- "That was some ride, Ross!"