The final instalment in the Ross O''Carroll Kelly series
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It looked like it was Game Over for the Rossmeister General.
I was staring down the barrel of the big four-oh! And what did I have to show for it?
I was an out-of-work rugby coach who was soon to be divorced. My old dear was sliding away in a nursing home in a certain suburb of West Dublin. And my old man had brought the country to the verge of, like, nuclear annihilation.
And if that wasn-t bad enough, my teenage daughter was in love again. My sister-in-law was about to give birth to a baby that was possibly mine. And Castlerock College was about to go - I can-t even say the word - co-ed.
People kept saying that we were facing Ormageddon. But I was like, -Hey, it-s not the end of the world.-
Because Father Fehily used to say, -Sometimes good things come to an end so that better things can come to a beginning.-
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