Now I’m 26 and still really good-looking. You can read my thoughts on life every week in the newspaper my old man once sued for spelling my name wrong in a Leinster Schools Senior Cup match report... I was basically a really good-looking goy of 17 when my diary storted to appear in The Sunday Tribune in January 1998... For almost a decade, my weekly musings on life, love and rugby have been required reading for the great opinion-formers of our times. Ten years of columns is almost half a million words. The paper used in getting my message to millions of readers has accounted for an area of rainforest the size of Belgium. However, what I have to say is far more important than rainforests. And Belgium. Read My First Ever Column Read My First Irish Times Column Text Copyright © Paul Howard 2009. Artwork copyright © Alan Clarke 2009. All Rights Reserved. Site by Quicky Fingers