WHAT was happening last week in Bray garda station? Is it possible that a process has started whereby former senior bankers, who have brought our economy to the precipice of insolvency, will face the four-letter ‘g’ word? Get a grip. Cop yourself on. Ireland doesn’t do gaol, it does golf. There is little imminent prospect of justice. We should not be surprised.

ALLIED Irish Beef Processors has paid the Government €3.8 million in settlement of a dispute arising from court cases which looked at irregularities in the group’s operation of the Beef Intervention Scheme.