Many thanks to David Simon for making the Wire screening and public interview at the IFI on Friday such a pleasure. Also, big shout out to Angela and all at Canongate, Peter Mc from Repforce, Jane, Tony, Paul N and everyone at the Film Institute, not least those who paid in, listened hard, asked questions and inspired a certain Mrs Dillon to dub the event Wirecon.

Also wanted to tip the hat to Sean, the folks at Ballina and fellow writers Ferdia, Pat and John for making the Edge Festival 08 such a hoot last week.