Ten years is a long time for politicians to stop talking dirty

WHEN Albert Reynolds did it, he got mired in it. When Mary O’Rourke does it, she steps over it.

The issue is the public use of the word crap.

In 1992, in the middle of a period of conflict, controversy and contention, an irritated Albert Reynolds described a point put to him as crap. He did so in public, with the cameras rolling and the microphones recording and the nation, led by a noisily swooning media, suffered an attack of the vapours.