IT’S been quite a while, but GUBU is making a comeback. An acronym for grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented, the phrase was paraphrased from a comment by then Taoiseach Charles Haughey while describing a strange series of incidents in 1982 that led to a double murderer being apprehended in the house of the attorney general. It was a bizarre happening, an unprecedented situation, a grotesque situation, an almost unbelievable mischance.

WE have had nothing but broken promises from Fianna Fáil since the last general election? Why should the latest NAMA “promise” be any way different?

IN his business section column (July 25), Brian O’Mahony probably raises the question that’s on everyone’s mind: what about everything else besides the banking crisis? What about unemployment, Bord Snip, Lisbon II, the property crash, schools and garda stations closing, our senior citizens, medical card and health cuts, as well social welfare, children’s allowance cuts, etc.

Two men remain in garda custody this morning following a raid on a cocaine-mixing operation in the Glasnevin area of Dublin yesterday.