The property supplement to a recent issue of the Irish Examiner contained a piece by Tommy Barker about the sale of Monkstown Castle House — ‘House of the week’ (June 8) — home of the late Charlie Hennessey and Abby Scott.

There is an old joke about how, although we drive on the left hand side of the road now, we are going to change over to driving on the right. But just to be careful, we’ll phase it in.

A man who was the subject of a garda manhunt this week after escaping from custody calmly walked into court yesterday to be sentenced for burglary at the home of a prominent solicitor.