Saddam would have done much better up a tree in north Dublin

USUALLY, good advice is that when you realise you’re in a hole, you should stop digging.

The problem for Saddam Hussein is that he did stop digging and was eventually found by American forces.

He might have had a better chance of evading discovery if he had hidden in north Dublin, an area which never gives up its secrets, as we know, despite the most intensive Government probing. He could have been perched up a tree there and never been spotted.