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Wednesday It’s 3.15pm and I am entering the tunnel – five days of bedlam and babel until the Booker Prize ceremony on Sunday. I drive from home to an airport hotel, change into a tux and charge to Dublin Convention Centre for the Irish Book Awards. Inside, RTÉ Six One News corner me and Other Paul, aka Paul Murray. He gives me a sharp hug.