Terry Prone: From Ivana Bacik to Donald Trump, salty language has its place in the lexicon

One 'Irish Examiner' reader who didn't approve of Terry Prone quoting an F-word may not agree — but the thought of the Labour leader's rebirth as a sweary woman was enthralling

'The New York Times' carried out a counting exercise on one of Donald Trump's relatively short speeches, finding in it a ‘hell’, an ‘ass’, and a pair of ‘bullshits’. Picture: Alex Brandon/AP

Ivana Bacik apologised for her language and I got ticked off in a hand-delivered letter on the same day.

Normally, Ivana’s idea of rabid condemnation is to describe something as “not helpful”. The thought of her as a newly sweary woman was enthralling. In fact, though, all she’d done was tell Michael Healy-Rae to shut up because he’d been heckling her about cyclists.