Saturday 13 May: Those things make you fart
09:00 1919 Rebel Dan Breen frees comrade from Limerick train being escorted to Dublin, killing 2 police
11:21 Woman found murdered in Dublin yesterday is named.
13:33 Met Luther Vangrass in Smithfield for a late breakfast and scored. "That stuff was carted in off the bog in an ass-and-cart early this morning. Harvested by the soft hands of comely west of Ireland virgins. The finest homegrown mary jane in Connemara."
"Conne-marijuana? I didn't know there were any virgins left in the Irish speaking parts of Ireland."
"You'll be fluent in the native tongue yourself after a puff of that," said Luther.
"Tá súil agam."
Satisfiedly, smiling, I sop the remaining sauce with a toasty crust.
"Those things make you fart," Luther says, dismissively. He's posh. Southsider. Pretty clever Blackrock boy who rarely ventures this far into the city.
"Baked beans," I reply, "Are the poor man's caviare." He palms the two hundred snots rubbing off his knee beneath the table and drinks his tea.