Conor McPherson

nd Finbar’s going bananas with the great fella that he is. Patting himself on the back, goodo, and talking about the new resident. Who, he says, is a fine girl. Single. Down from Dublin and all this. And Finbar’s nearly leaving the wife just to have a chance with this one

And so... I’m not going to listen to ‘Do this and do that, and you’ll be right.’ Just to get a few bob. There’s no fun in that and the principle of it, you know?

FINBAR

Oh he is! Valerie, look at this. That’s Big Finbar now. And that’s Brendan’s father, Paddy Byrne. This was when the ESB opened it. Big thing around here, Brendan.

But she was a grand, you know, spritely kind of a woman ’til the end. And had all her... She was on the ball, like, you know? And she swore that this happened. When she was only a girl. She lived in that house all her life. And she had older brothers and sisters. She was the youngest. And her mother, eh...

Mmm. Might be. Might be, alright. Didn’t want the loneliness maybe, you know?

And she says she was after getting a phone call from the young one, Niamh, and she was after doing the Luigi board, or what do you call it?

I do often wear a suit. Don’t come in here for the first time in God knows, thinking we’re fucking hicks. ’Cause you’re from round here.

I had a good job at DCU. I had gone back to work after having my daughter, Niamh.

But sure you can’t just accept that, that you, you know... I mean... surely you, you have to look at the broader thing of it here.

And I don’t know why it was a thing with me that I... an irrational fear, I suppose, that, kept me here. And I couldn’t understand why she wanted to be running off up to Dublin, you know?