No clean solution in sight for Three

LISTENING to Michael McDowell sound off about Sinn Féin and the Colombia Three was a bit like witnessing the tail-end of a Mediterranean storm.

You know that it has passed. You can see that the lightning has moved off over the horizon but you are still hearing the deafening roar of delayed thunder.

The huffery and puffery wasn’t surprising (it is the Mullah after all and it is the Shinners he is going on about). But what was surprising was that his first pronouncement was so political. You could have predicted what he was going to say about Adams’s family values long before he wound himself up for fulmination. He had some stuff to say about the possible legal options. But nothing to suggest there is any clear pathway open to extradite the three men to Colombia.