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Martin Keaveney has returned with a new novel just in time for Christmas. Tommy O’Toole is a talented adolescent from a village at the centre of isolated bog swamps known as the ‘Mackon Country’. He lives in a mobile home with his father Joe who dreams of completing a half-built house in the field nearby.

Hands up those who can remember getting their first home phone installed? Insider had to wait six months after application before Albert Reynolds, Minister for Communications, waved his hand in 1980, and as if by magic, I got a wired in house phone, then being manufactured by our own Northern Telecom in Mervue.