Hot air and kites fill summer sky as politicos prepare ground assaults

You can expect a raft of of articles on how dreadful it is that ministers need advisors to do their jobs, writes Fergus Finlay

You know you’ve reached the silly season when the Sunday Independent carries a major story — and pushes it in the radio advertising for the paper – about George Hook’s sexuality.

The actual piece, which revealed (among other things) that George occasionally favoured the wearing of ladies’ underwear, was far more than any of us really needed to know.