Don’t Look Back in Ongar

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It looked like it was Game Over for the Rossmeister General.
I was staring down the barrel of the big four-oh! And what did I have to show for it?

I was an out-of-work rugby coach who was soon to be divorced. My old dear was sliding away in a nursing home in a certain suburb of West Dublin. And my old man had brought the country to the verge of, like, nuclear annihilation.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, my teenage daughter was in love again. My sister-in-law was about to give birth to a baby that was possibly mine. And Castlerock College was about to go – I can’t even say the word – co-ed.

People kept saying that we were facing Ormageddon. But I was like, ‘Hey, it’s not the end of the world.’

Because Father Fehily used to say, ‘Sometimes good things come to an end so that better things can come to a beginning.’


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'I hope this series runs for decades' Belfast Telegraph

'An extraordinary run of sustained comedic excellence . . . brilliant' Irish Times

© Ross O'Carroll-Kelly 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Critics Review

Our nation's great satirist
Irish Times
A national treasure
Irish Independent
Book after book, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly delivers the goods . . . in a league of his own
Business Post
Ireland’s finest comic creation since Father Ted
Hot Press
Satirical masterpieces
Irish Daily Star
The single greatest chronicler of our times
Irish Independent
Ross is a national institution
Irish Times
One of the funniest writers in the country
RTÉ Radio One
The social satire is as sharp as it gets ... compelling and carefully crafted
Irish Examiner
Laugh-out-loud funny
Newstalk

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