The cabinet on tour - Enjoy your weekend, ministers

AT THIS stage it has become as predictable as the debate over who will be allowed to march in New York’s St Patrick’s Day parade.

The airwaves might bristle with all sorts of all sorts, some insisting that a cadre of Irish Citizens Defence Force trainee suicide bombers should be allowed march down Fifth Avenue, and, later go to the Solemn Pontifical Mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral, just because one of them half remembers a half-granny called Bridie Eilee McMagooley.

Others will insist that they have nothing to do with the Green Flag and demand that they be banned.