Has anyone spelled out the alternatives to pylons and renewables, such as building a nuclear power station at Moneypoint and confining economic development to Dublin? Or just turning off all the lights and using candles?

THE Supreme Court yesterday allowed an appeal by the State against a High Court decision, last Tuesday, to free a 41-year-old man serving a sentence for the statutory rape of a 12-year-old girl — and ordered his rearrest.