It wasn’t quite the cliche of a dark and stormy night...

Still, it was the night before ­Halloween and I’m lost; bumping anxiously along a pitch-dark woodland road at the back end of Cavan in a car with the petrol light flashing. There’s not a sight or sound of human life. Then I catch sight of candles flickering up ahead.

I try to ring the person I have come all this way to see. The coverage is zero in the woods..