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Deirdre Flynn
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Lecturer in 21st Literature - Secretary of IASIL - Member of Young Academy of Ireland
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Nothing was more of a revelation than a recent trip to Ireland, however. Each summer, I do interviews for the Belfast dance music festival AVA, and regularly end up surrounded by beautiful, positive and accomplished twentysomethings. At one point during my last jaunt, just such a room of young people began avidly swapping tales of disastrous Hinge and Tinder dates. I offhandedly mentioned I’d never used a dating app, because my relationship with my wife predates the invention of the smartphone by about six months. Now, I realised, it was me doling out the psychic shocks, as I looked up to find my youthful colleagues were staring at me as if I was a gnarled and toothless corpse they’d just pulled from a bog, one which had now gasped back to life, demanding mutton and hog’s blood. With something like reverent horror, they listened as I went on. Whiskers grew from my cheeks as I informed them that, for many years, text messages didn’t show you when the other person was typing. “You couldn’t even tell if they’d seen or received your message,” I told one, while another cast me a worried look and asked me I’d like someone to fetch me a chair.
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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So we'll deserved Abeba - delighted to see this!
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I know! Huge loss
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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social calendar is exactly what is ticked!

The hair is still stumping me!
November 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM