Bush goes with the flow in Iraq

WHEN the Normans dropped in on Wexford in the 12th century at least everybody admitted it was to steal as much as they could carry.

It took 800 years for them to finish ‘liberating’ this country. The forests that covered the country were chopped down and carted off. Eleven miles of corridor in the Houses of Parliament are covered in it.

If it wasn’t for those insurgents like James Connolly and Eamon de Valera and the ‘jaw-jaw’ that followed, we might still be a colony or a province.