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Let's move to a city in the midst of marshes where the locals carry wooden clubs! This week: Kilkenny

If you have a problematic relationship with alcohol or want to cultivate one, then the Marble City’s the place for you.

Mash Blind Date: a man who loves running and hiking and climbing, and a woman who hates that shit but lied

LOVER of the outdoors Jack Browne, aged 28, is thrilled to be dating Hannah Tomlinson, aged 25, who hates all that crap but fancies men who do it.

Your astrological week ahead, with Psychic Bob

You're flattered when the barmaid at your local remembers what you had last time you were in. Fifteen pints of Stella, eight Jägerbombs and a scuffle in the car park.

The Archbishop of Canterbury on... dickheads dressing as crusaders

WAKING in the jungle, breath pungent with kangaroo’s testicles, surrounded by slumbering elderly and eminent men in cassocks, I dimly recall how I came to be here.

My top hacks for cheating fruit machines, by Adele

BEGINNING her residency in the gambling capital of the USA, Adele explains why she only took the gig to make bank in the arcades.

Gaudy decor and tiny f**king portions: the gammon food critic takes on tapas

IF Spanish food’s any good, how come the Costa del Sol’s full of English pubs selling English food? Answer me that.

A confused Millennial tries to… organise a night out without a mobile

IN the dim and distant past, nobody had iPhones. Texting hadn’t been invented. You would leave a message for a friend by ‘telling their dad’.

Six ways to look like a bellend in an… England shirt

THE World Cup is here five months late, so why not express your belief in your country in an aggressive manner by wearing a replica kit 24/7 from now until mid-December?

Your astrological week ahead, with Psychic Bob

Did you know? The raven that was tapping on Edgar Allan Poe’s door was originally a penguin, but that wasn’t scary so he changed it.

The Archbishop of Canterbury on... the twatting Qatar World Cup

RETURNING to consciousness in a prison cell, a fresh gash on my forehead and my kneecap sore as if repeatedly and vigorously applied to a groin, I recall how I came here.