From news reports it appears that many of the Tyrrelstown tenant victims of the Beltany ‘vampire squid’ are immigrants. Peter Sutherland was for many years the chairman of Goldman Sachs International, of which Beltany is a subsidiary.

Last October, after 50 years of blameless, accident-free, summons-free, mostly sedate driving as befits my age, I suddenly acquired a criminal record: two penalty points and an €80 fine for speeding.