Hallowe’en happens every year, but its miseries are preventable

I’m not suggesting we stop the Irish army doing its marvellous peace-keeping work in places like Chad.

However, I am suggesting we deploy the four or five thousand army personnel here in similar peacekeeping activities. Peacekeeping and crime prevention.

LAST Friday evening, the taxi to take me to a TV studio was running so late that the driver kept telephoning to report his limited progress.