PERHAPS the Russians are only getting their own back after years of tyrannical abuse under the murderous Georgian, Joe Stalin.

PEOPLE may have felt a sense of betrayal over the disclosure that Bishop Eamon Casey had fathered a son, but in the last analysis it was their own sense of innocence that was exposed.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern’s recent Damascus Road-style conversion to socialist principles was a shock to the body politic, and not least to the formerly isolated TD, ‘Red’ Joe Higgins.