Reversing is not as difficult to master as you might think it just needs practice for you to become confident at it. Start at reversing in a straight line, then go on to reversing around corners and more complicated manoeuvres. Your vehicle will respon…

When turning the steering wheel avoid crossing your hands. Feed the rim of the wheel through your hands. Vary your hand movements according to the amount of lock you want. This is called the pull and push technique: To turn left: Slide your left and up…

My brother-in-law’s Spanish girlfriend Maria summed it up. “I love Irish funerals. They’re brilliant.” She’s right. Forget about the James Joyce, Riverdance and The Crack. Our greatest gift to the world is showing other races how do a proper …

I’m nervous about people who go to the same place on the continent for their holidays every year. It isn’t the lack of imagination. It’s the smug stories about how they’re treated like locals at the village fete or how they taught the lady in t…