Irish politicians should be glad of their boring lives

Canada used to be the most boring country in the hemisphere, but its political scene has now been disturbed in the most gruesome of fashions

WITH dismembered murder victims, summary executions and perjury allegations becoming embroiled across international politics at the moment perhaps we should be grateful things are a bit dull at home.

Someone in Government will have to carry the can for the low turnout in the fiscal treaty poll, but at least he or she will not be dealt with North Korean-style.