CAN you imagine Richard Bruton’s reaction when he got the call? The instruction from Enda Kenny may have been: “Richard, I want to get rid of this Seanad thing, and you’re the best man for the job.”

THESE tapes just keep on coming. First, there were the ‘Lowry tapes’, then the ‘Anglo tapes’, and now the ‘Boston tapes’ are hitting the headlines.

IT was a week of two icons, the treatment of one eliciting national sound and fury, the other’s plight little more than a footnote.

ONE word has been largely missing from the reams of coverage of the Anglo Tapes and that word is... morality.

OH, to have been a fly on the wall in Finnegan’s bar.

WOULD you like to see an alternative way forward?

CHRISTY Moore once wrote a song about climbing up the walls in the cold, grey reality of the aftermath of a serious bender.

THERE was some fine architecture on display in the Prime Time ‘Breach of Trust’ programme last Tuesday.

TO make a hames of one smear was unfortunate, to make a hames of two was careless.

It is as if the cabinet lobbed the abortion issue into the committee and ran for cover as havoc ensued, writes Michael Clifford.