My wise 100-year-old friend Frances: ‘I used to pursue people who didn’t like me. I don’t have to do that any more’
‘I told a story about a sex toy at my mother’s funeral. The priest was mortified, but Mum would have loved it’
As a Labrador swam by me out to sea his owner said ‘I hope he doesn’t meet a seal’. I later learned why
‘Dún Laoghaire is a place of such contrasts - it has yacht clubs and sunshine, but also a darker side’
