Said I’d stay she just kept looking right through me, like I was a stranger. WeĬould – well, maybe not now, maybe not straight away, but we could even THINKĪbout maybe someday getting married there. So when I told Roisin, I thought she’d be delighted. Troublemaker, but Roisin, the good girl, the one who’d got the best LeavingĬert results in the school? What was she doing with my tongue down her throat, Your Debs and asked if you could stop kissing your girlfriend in public please. You wouldn’t get theĬatholic-dogma stuff in schools there, wouldn’t get quietly pulled aside at They just seemed to get everything right. I’d started being obsessed with Canada inĬollege. I said yes without even thinking about it. Indieīut quality, the sort with studios rather than a bunch of mates and a camera in Movies – the kind I’d wanted to be involved in since I was a teenager. Stints back at home – the opportunity came along. ‘bisexuals are just saying it for the attention’ rants helped.)Īnd then – after a few missteps and some longer-than-ideal London made everythingīetter – I managed to even go for cocktails with one of the bitches from school Running into people we knew from school or college. Barry was there, with his partner, and we were constantly Everyone I knew was either an aspiring media type or anĪspiring academic, all of us fairly broke, and it seemed to make sense. I always figured that Roisin would come to London, after sheįinished her PhD. Not enough) just to pay your salary directly into a RyanAir bank account. London is close enough to Dublin to fly backĪt weekends, to consider asking your employers (multiple, because it’s stillĪll about short-term contracts and veering between having way too much work and Sounds hopeful and positive and full of opportunity.

London is where it’s all happening, because London is where Barry is and it Get your mind out of theĪnd then you – okay, I, me, fine – go to London.

Things, use your own imagination) doesn’t mean it’s rubbed off on you. Scholarship that lets her live on campus for free (okay, good for certain Your girlfriend’s one of those people who loves learning and got some crazy Where you remember that you’re not actually academic, and that just because This is what you do in Ireland when a recession hits aĬouple of years after you graduate with a fucking useless degree in Media

A mini-sequel for anyone who might enjoy it…] Given the week that’s in it, I just had to wonder what Emily Keating was up to nowadays, and how she’d respond to the same-sex marriage referendum in Ireland. Over ten years ago my book Good Girls Don’tcame out, a YA novel with a bisexual narrator who spent far more time than she should trying to help her friends sort things out, and got into a fair number of romantic entanglements as a consequence.

The Spiral Cage by Al Davison