It’s fascinating in a grim way to see anti-semitism revivify itself on this small provocation, writes Terry Prone

Any sober assessment of the water debacle, any assessment of our response to the sharpening imperative to change how we regard this essential but finite gift, any assessment of whose needs prevailed during the establishment of the feather-bedded monopoly, or any assessment of the economics of water provision in 2014 must cause any rational person to wonder if we are capable of honest self-appraisal.

PJ Murrihy is on the bandstand getting his gig underway with one of his popular songs, ‘Eileen Alanna’.