Even though in his speech to the Fine Gael Árd Fheis last weekend, Enda Kenny was quite certain that there is no alternative to Universal Health Care, (how often have we been told there is no alternative only to find out too late that there was and it was a better alternative), he might like to be informed about a recent milestone.

ANEURIN BEVAN, the great British trade union leader and politician, once said we all know what happens to people who walk on the middle of the road... they get knocked down.