It’s been a surreal three weeks, my first foray into the world of politics and several lessons learned.

YOU can have an implausibility of gnus, a deceit of lapwings, and a sneak of weasels, but what would the collective noun for a group of ex-Fine Gael leaders be? Ah, yes — a uselessness.

The British government must produce a decommissioning programme for the Sellafield nuclear plant which will result in its swift closure, the SDLP said today.