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It was nine o’clock on a Sunday night when Johnny Og came to collect me, and it was raining—not one of those misty, soft rains, as is often the case on the west coast of Ireland, but one of those howling, unforgiving, relentless downpours that comes from no discernable direction, save for the threatening sky overhead. Johnny Og had stepped onto my porch, hair wet, wax jacket dripping. “Well, I’m here,” he said. “A bit worse for wear, but I’m here.”
“I can’t believe this weather,” I said, in lieu of hello.
“You learn to live with it,” he returned. “People are always running down the weather in Ireland, but I think it’s all in the attitude.”
“Such is life,” I confirmed, and although running to his car was tantamount to diving into the eye of a hurricane, a plan is a plan, and the plan that night was to pick up his father then drive to Tigh Hughes for the Sunday night sessiun.

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