Garage calendar farce - HSA need to grow up and apologise

ONE of the prices we all pay for being mortal – most of us anyway – is that we occasionally make terrible eejits of ourselves. One of the consolations is that we sometimes get a chance to redeem ourselves.

Yesterday the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) got their chance at redemption and, thankfully, took it. But before we settle back in an all’s-well-that-ends-well mode a few questions must be answered by the HSA.

They were in the firing line because they had written to garage owner Mike Daly ordering him to remove calendars featuring topless women from his garage “immediately”. They claimed the motor-industry standards were “pornographic”.