Tony Donnelly
It was a pleasure to chat with an old 'mature student' Queens' university friend Tony Donnelly from Galbally. Great memories, with loads of laughs along the way, remembering going back to learning in our 30s. Tony stayed with the spade while Ronan went digging with a pen, to paraphrase Seamus Heaney. Also, our journeys into hurling, albeit we never swung a hurl in anger. Song, poetry and a reading in tribute to Tyrone's greatest ever hurler, the late Damian Casey RIP, a fantastic young man who is so sorely missed.

School - the best days of your life?
As the children go back to school, the Two Macs recall those days way back filled with a mix of fear, foreboding and fondness. From a coathanger used to wield punishment, the dreaded yellow bed, there were also wonderful teachers and memories of quirky songs, poems and offbeat incidents. Remembering a school yard bully and a nun who got a taste of her own medicine while Martin also recalls his teaching days and regales us with a song as he did his pupils.

'Identity' - a word very much in vogue these days - is examined by the TwoMacs whose formative years were the 1970s. Struggling to keep up with ever-changing political correctness, the discussion includes men with pushchairs, insults, whether the 'n'-word can be used in context, a social experiment proposal to walk hand-in-hand on Main Street and a student who identified as a horse. Do we decide our identity or do others? A thought provoking, challenging and entertaining chat this week.