Professor O’Riordan 

Chairman of NanoTechnology

at Trinity College, Dublin

is the kind of chap

who while on stage in Stockholm

being awarded the Nobel Prize

in Biology for a lifetime of work,

80 hours in lab per week,

3 divorces and 6 children

that refuse to speak with him,

who is massively 

distracted now

by a pesky hangnail 

on the ring finger

of his left hand.

He’s simply intrigued 

by very tiny details.