PDs bid to conquer final frontier

De Northside — the final frontier.

These are the voyages of Justice Minister Michael McDowell his continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no PD has gone before.

The last time a member of McDowell's clan made a celebrated trip across the River Liffey was when his grandfather Eoin McNeill attempted to cancel the 1916 Easter Rising.