Ciaran’s Peculier [sic] Blog

People interested in TV trivia will recall the famous episode of University Challenge featuring a team from Manchester who answered every question posed by Bamber Gasscoin with the name “Trotsky”.

Recently I told an old friend of mine about how I’d been snubbed by the organisers of the conference in Cavan County Museum. He replied “Surely you must realise by now that you’re like Trotsky when it comes to the Cavan establishment.” True, but I had thought things might have changed a bit and that the insecure group who sit astride the heights of Cavan’s social framework might have started to become a little less frightened of me. Obviously not. Plus ca change … There are still those who cannot hear my name without reaching for the ice pick.