THOUSANDS of Poles filled a vast sunbathed square in Warsaw yesterday for the beatification of Jerzy Popieluszko, a charismatic priest tortured and killed in 1984 by communist Poland’s secret police for supporting Lech Walesa’s Solidarity freedom movement.

WHEN there is nothing left to say, some fool will always say it. That was a message that used to hang in the newsroom of RTÉ.