PAUL GOLDIN, the hypnotist who died this week, was greatly mourned by many people. I saw him perform in the early 1960s when I was still in secondary school. It was probably the funniest live show I ever attended.

IT was no coincidence that on the day Fianna Fáil began their two-day sit-in in Killarney Saddam Hussein offered to allow the UN weapons inspectors back into Iraq unconditionally.