Cormac MacConnell: Expect titters at antics of novice ministers

I will be heavily criticised by some of you for retailing this yarn, but I don’t care at all, because I enjoyed hearing it and, anyway, in Rising season, it is topical as well.

We were indirectly responsible for what happened by launching the revolution which signalled the beginning of the end for the British Empire, upon which the sun once never set — because it stretched right around the world.

That’s the pure truth, for sure.