Appetite For Distraction

Sexed-up young people in benevolent summer captivity? Where have I seen this before? Ah, is cuimhin liom anois

Maura Higgins: the similarities between Love Island and the Gaeltacht are remarkable

Horny young people, cooped up in an intense and unfamiliar environment, doing their best to lob the gob and drop the lámh at every turn, performing strange rituals, developing fierce friendships, and unceremoniously turfed back into their own lives at the end of the prescribed few weeks. Love Island? Or every summer Gaeltacht experience I had between the ages of ten and 17?

The similarities are remarkable. The glaring difference is that the ...