Gardaí have better things to do than get painted into a corner

WE know that the Government press secretary, Eoghan Ó Neachtain, complained to RTÉ about its broadcast of a news report on the hanging of caricature portraits of Brian Cowen in art galleries but what we don’t know is who complained to the Garda Siochana about it.

That is arguably more interesting and more important. Somebody must have made a complaint. It would be extraordinary if busy gardaí decided to do something about the alleged “crimes” of incitement to hatred, indecency, and criminal damage, the reasons given for the questioning of Conor Casby, painter of the offending items. Don’t they have work to do investigating what happened at our banks for example instead of bothering themselves with this?