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Niall Collins makes a statement in the Dáil to address the circumstances around his wife's purchase of a site in Patrickswell in 2008. Picture: oireachtas.ie

It took just seven minutes for the controversy over the sale of a piece of land in Limerick to the wife of Fianna Fáil TD Niall Collins to be wrapped up in the Dáil.

A controversy that was a week in the public domain was over in the same time it takes to listen to 'Hotel California'. Though given that this was the second statement of affairs by Mr Collins in the last two months, the Eagles' line about being able to check out any time you like but not being able to leave is probably apt.