We shouldn’t have to wait for a few decades to hear the truth

THE price of a pint, or who did what in Dublin last weekend is the last thing to bother tipplers throughout the country at the moment.

The question that preoccupies them in their locals is whether something that’s arrived in Dublin can - like the avian flu - be contained.

What many pint drinkers in the pubs around north Dublin may have put down to a bad pint turned out to be something altogether different, and more serious.