I once saw Hodnett drinking in the snug behind the front windows of O'Donoghues of Merrion Row. Tom Munnelly knew him well and once told me that Hoddy used to sit in the snug and wait for the concert-goers to arrive in, when he would quiz them about the gig they had just attended, and write up his review for the Irish Times from their answers. Perhaps this was a regular practice, or Hoddy did it once and Tom was embellishing the story. We'll never know now.