A Different View with Dave O’Connell

The two astronauts who went to space for eight days and came back nine months later might have struck the rest of the world as remarkable – but Irish lads have been pulling strokes like that for years.

The astronauts’ elongated adventure immediately brought to mind a former colleague of mine, now deceased, who once turned up at home – and there’s no other way of putting it – well-inebriated, to find he couldn’t get the key into the front door.

His then-wife, later separated, answered the door to........

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