Judge’s interpretation a little taxing

We had a back-to-the-future event last Tuesday when Michael Lowry emerged from a building claiming vindication and victimhood. He had just been convicted of tax offences, escaped jail and declared that he had been hounded and vilified.

Who would have thought in December 1996, on the night he emerged from another building claiming vindication and victimhood, that he would still be a public figure today, wearing his hangdog expression, blaming everybody else for his plight?

On that December night, he had resigned from cabinet after it had been revealed in the media that renovation work worth more than €400,000 on his home had been paid for by Ben Dunne.