Diary of an Irishman, featuring Vincent Browne, Dermot Morgan and The General

Diary of an Irishman, featuring Vincent Browne, Dermot Morgan and The General

Diary of an Irishman, featuring Vincent Browne, Dermot Morgan and The General


A poet, it was once said, is someone who must wait to be hit by lightning. There is no such patience extended to the newspaper columnist, certainly not a columnist who, like Frank McNally in The Irish Times, has been the chief writer of the Irishman’s Diary – now known as An Irish Diary – for 19 years. Four times a week, McNally writes the column. He suffers, he says, from ‘columnist’s gut’ – “the centre of my stomach is always in a little bit of a knot from worrying about how I’m going to fill the space tomorrow”. McNally…