It was magnificent to see these huge rolls of paper and everything whizzing by.

Yeah, it's...

When you see them in action or footage of them in action, it's all that you imagine... almost like a conjuring process to be.

And, you know, it's like those Heath Robinson cartoons where, you know, you press a button here and a number of actions happen.

So I wrote the column on foot of the fact I have no memory of in real life of that.

But I know that Dublin is full of printers still, you know, fellas and some women who worked in the press and the evening press, the Irish press, Sunday press and all the various media.

papers.

And you could do it really fast.

Yeah.

Get yourselves down to the print museum.

It's tucked in behind Beggar's Bush barracks off Haddington Road.

And I've been there a few times, but this is lovely because they had retired printers there printing stuff in front of you.

And there's something about seeing the proclamation of independence printed in front of you.

Hmm.

You know, like just seeing it roll off the presses.

And you could do it really fast.

[laughs] Oof.

But that was, that was one of the classic World Cup games that you look f- if you allow yourself to look forward to a game too much, it will disappoint.

Whereas the one that happens sneakily at 4:00 in the morning involving s- for some reason, Switzerland, and it's three-all, you're like, "I missed that." But so, but I mean, instead of even watching it back now, you're going, "Oh, Spain were so good." Like, just shutting them down, and, uh, I don't know what happened to France.

They just, they didn't turn up.

Mm-hmm.

So there's a bit of that.

Uh, this is their best shot 'cause Messi has, has been, uh, like he's ...

You can see it, the cr- the cracks forming and that he wasn't as much of an influence in the previous game.

Hello, Colm.

Hello, Brenda.

It's a pleasure to be here outside Davey Barnes.

Yeah, my solution, two words, audio and book.

I also own, I own a copy of the book.

Its spine is untroubled.

The spine is like a physiotherapist's.

I'm a bit disappointed you're not dressed up so far today.

you enjoy?

It's almost the lack of... ulterior motive about the library.

I might be getting this wrong now, but I think there's a concept called a third space that a lot of people talk about.

So home is one space, work is another space.

And they talk about the fact that communities need a third space, which isn't where you have any obligation.

You don't have to spend money.

And it's places where you can meet other people.

Who goes into libraries?