They are not just contributors to these pages but the eyes and ears which assist us in keeping in touch with trends, ideas and people worth noting. They are much more than a by-line.
As such, we’d like to congratulate our print editor John Patrick McHugh for ‘Hoarfrost’, his short story about love and swinging in rural Ireland being selected by Granta as one of its top reads of 2018.
His pal Sally ‘Normal People’ Rooney is there too.