“That’s Peter’s car, he’s just pulling in,” says Elaine, the supervisor in Cavistons restaurant. At this precise moment, I am sitting on a high stool which overlooks the street. Cavistons is a food hall, fishmongers and restaurant in Glasthule, south county Dublin. In this wealthy enclave, it is something of an institution.  A silver car, a Kerry-registered Mitsubishi Colt 2007, rapidly darts into the loading bay as I sit waiting. Elaine runs out to see if Peter Caviston is okay. Of course he is. Slowly but defiantly, Peter Caviston, the owner of Cavistons, unfurls himself from the car and emerges,…

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