Poor old Bernard McNamara got a going-over during the week. McNamara is a developer and former Fianna Fáil councillor. A hardened cynic might say that’s enough to merit a perpetual going-over. But in fairness to the man, he was well got in places high and low before his own fall from grace into the clutches of bankruptcy.

Public money is to be the main source of funding for the repair and upgrade work to be undertaken on the privately owned Longboat Quay apartment blocks, which were found to be a firetrap last year.