WITH Northern Ireland now being jolted by a couple of sex scandals, maybe we should ask why our politics have remained strangely free of such scandals? The whole thing undoubtedly has a lot to do with hypocrisy.

For over 20 years John Bowman’s Questions & Answers programme has made a real contribution to political debate by allowing the public to have their say with politicians on the issues of the day.

After it was disclosed that Ben Dunne had paid for renovations to Michael Lowry’s house, Bertie said the “first duty of any minister is to the public whom he has been appointed to serve.

DR JIM MCDAID has apparently decided to quit active politics with immediate effect. He has stated that he is already concentrating on his medical practice.

IT was not so long ago that Michael McDowell was calling for the jailing of gardaí who leaked information.