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“the pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking and drabbing, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never really ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this

Rebus, on being asked if he uses FaceTime, “I’m still getting the hang of phones without wires - don’t start bamboozling me.”

“Our kitchen table is big. Time was it would be filled. Three sons and one girl. All gone, scattered all over the world, all that remains of them ink on paper and foreign stamps.”

“He exudes a treacly good humour, always wears an inane smile and talks with a thick western brogue upon which seaweed could be hung”

Has Duffy become a superhero? He drives from Glencolumbkille to Carrickfergus in 88 minutes (page 26). That's 154 miles away. Even with his blue lights flashing, he'd need much help from Saint Michael and the Virgin to do it in under three hours.