How to beat the tribal war dancers today

MARTIN McGuinness is no daw. But he was taken aback by a quick witted reporter on UTV’s Assembly election special last Thursday who asked (a la JFK) not when he had left the IRA, but why?

“For personal reasons,” said Martin.

As this was supposedly the early 1970s, his commitment to ‘the cause’ had evaporated a lot quicker than his vow of silence to his comrades, which would put many a Sicilian hitman to shame.