Out-of-this-world answers to Ireland’s woes

IT’S that time of year again. The great and good of public life pack their buckets and spades and head off to the wilds of Donegal to muse over the road less travelled.

The Magill Summer School convened last Sunday in the lovely little town of Glenties, and, for the following few days, generated enough hot air to refloat the Celtic Bubble.

As the assembled guests stepped into a parallel world, two members of parliament headed in the other direction, popping up in Shannon airport, ploughing towards confrontation with the might of the US armed forces.