It’s definitely getting worseĪnyway, I’m in there with Brian, Johnny and Leo and there’s something I need to say to him, except I want to do it in a way that doesn’t hurt the dude’s feelings.
Word – insensitive? But I’m wondering is it the blinking.
He even did it on the morning of my wedding day. Blinky is an absolute ortist with a scissors and an electric shaver, which is saying something given that he spends half of his time cutting your hair in literally dorkness.īut Christmases, birthdays and Leinster Schools Senior Cup finals – he cut my hair for them all. The dude is, like, ancient and he got his name from – obviously – his habit of, like, fully shutting his eyes when he blinks, which is every two seconds, so it’s like he’s trying to tell you something in Morse code.
Collie “Blinky” Foran has been cutting the hair of the O’Carroll-Kelly men for, I don’t know, generations? My old man first took me there when I was, like, three years old – just like his old man took him? And when it was time for Brian, Johnny and Leo to have their very first haircuts – blade one at the back and sides and a quiff at the front, as is traditional – it was in Blinky’s chair, in Hair Apparent, above the chandlery and marine supplies store on Monkstown Crescent, that the boys sat.