A rare mea culpa. In pronouncing, before it started, the new Munster Hurling Championship the Best League in the World, it turns out, in hindsight, that I was grossly understating things. I was selling it short.

Tom McGrath reckons it was close to 9pm before his nephew Brian left the Connolly house on the night of Saturday, September 19.

That’s Anne McGrath’s verdict of the politicians who drew up Budget 2011.