Throwing in the (tea) towel

A small tingle of pride ran across my neck when I heard the news.

The world is watching and it thinks we’re sound.

Forbes magazine may not have meant much to us before Dec 4. Originally founded in the 1920s, it once had the slogan “Forbes — Devoted to Doers and Doings”. It was the magazine that famously said that our President Michael D Higgins was “a poet and an acknowledged homosexual”.