Oh, what would life be like, without a good agony aunt?

One of the ‘funny’ things about comedy is how some things that aren’t really funny at all, can make you burst into convulsions of laughter time after time.

After all, seeing someone slip on a banana skin and fall over can end up with the victim suffering a broken arm or wrist, and yet every time we see in in a sketch, we laugh.

For some reason of late, when I look up the death notices on RIP.ie, the name Farragher, flashes up before me automatically on the screen, and I’m inclined to have a little snigger and say: “Not just yet.”

We laugh when someone walks into a glass door that’s cleaned so well that it looks like it’s not there at all, but again it ain’t funny for the victim; while the rear view of a slightly obese male without a belt on his sagging trousers at least will draw an ‘oops’ if not a laugh.

Last Saturday, as I was flicking through the Irish Independent, a piece caught my eye on the problem page of the magazine section. I’d say, for all the world, it was a serious letter, but I have to admit I’m still laughing.

A woman was pouring out her heart to agony aunt, Mary O’Connor, about the third party that had entered into her relationship with her boyfriend. A touch of the Camilla Parker Bowles situation with Charles (well the other way around), one might think at first.

This third party had wreaked havoc with what had been apparently a pretty stable and loving relationship – the destruction list being quite a long and dramatic one. This third party – probably something of a ‘looker’ into the bargain – had caused fights between the previously happy couple; had wandered into the neighbour’s yard; and had injured the woman involved; as well as being involved in a number of road accidents; not to mention the cat being mauled.

Yes, you’ve probably guessed it by now, but the third party in the relationship was none other than a German shepherd dog, who had not been trained in the domestic ways of the world, by his new guardians.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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