Burton and Taylor try again!

THE economies of these two islands may be going south at a rate of knots but, let’s face it, there’s been only one story in the news this week.

The saga of the unhappy Roo and the ructions at the club which brought him to worldwide attention has variously been written up as a shame, a scandal, a disgrace, a mind-boggler and, more or less, the end of civilisation as we know it.

And I suppose if you were that innocent marsupial exposed to bright lights, loud music and simulated sex in a Dublin nightspot then you’d be entitled to take a pretty dim view of humankind.