Colm Tóibín

If you're going to forget it easily, then it's not going to stick.

It's not going to stay.

Look, it's really, you see, the problem is that you write it once.

Say you write this.

One of the key figures I think anyone Irish knows is the guy who runs the bar, the Irish bar in any city that you're visiting.

He might own the bar or give him more power in a way if he doesn't.

He just runs it and he knows everyone coming in and out.

He knows what sport to put on the TV.

He knows what people, punters are looking for.

He knows what drinks people will want.

He's almost the old role of a priest used to have.

There's something priestly about his role.

I put him in once, and then I couldn't resist it, and I put him in twice.

So there's one guy who runs such a bar in Barcelona, and I think it's called the Shamrock Shore.

And the other one runs a similar bar in San Francisco.

And they both are slightly sexually ambiguous.

It's unclear what they're thinking.

One of them is a real troublemaker of a certain sort, and the other is really kind and decent and watchful.

But he's on Grindr all the time as well as Fingal.

So it was tempting the second time not to.