Trump is visiting Ireland? ‘We should be on our knees with gratitude’ - The Irish Times

Trump is visiting Ireland? ‘We should be on our knees with gratitude’ - The Irish Times
Trump is visiting Ireland? ‘We should be on our knees with gratitude’  The Irish Times

I was walking around a supermarket in Mullingar last week with an empty basket, trying to remember what I came in to buy, when I bumped into a woman I recognised. “Excuse me” I said, “but have we met before?” “Well the guards wouldn’t ask me that, sir,” she said. She looked at my empty basket. “You must have a small family,” she observed. Her own trolley contained a weeks supply of processed foods, toilet rolls, cans of beer, and a gigantic box of crisps. Later, at the checkout another woman stared at me. “Are you the man from Cavan?” she wondered. So I couldn’t resist using the phrase I ha...