Shotgun divorce needed to stop Ireland getting screwed

FOR a new year’s resolution it was extreme.

An Italian husband wanted a fresh start to the year, rid of his wife — he is 99, she is 96 and they have been married since 1934.

It had been a shaky marriage for some time, according to court papers. The final straw for Antonio C was a few days before Christmas, when he discovered a cache of his wife Rosa C’s love letters from the 1940s which revealed she had an affair during the Second World War.