I cannot tell you how pleased I am to learn that Niall O'Flaherty, lead singer of the Sultans of Ping, who bestrode UCC like an ironic colossus when I was a fresher, is now Senior Lecturer in the History of European Political Thought at KCL, and an authority on William Paley.

I mean, political and social theory is right there in the first line.

The other thing that revolutionized student life in Cork in 1990 was a pizza place opening right outside UCC on the Western Road that—stay with me here—you could phone up and they would deliver a pizza to you in exchange for some money, which was absolutely unheard of.