Dub trouble as Freeman fallout comes to a head

WE’RE WORKING hard on a title here for events in Dublin’s Parnell Park last weekend. Buttgate sounds like an animated comedy for MTV. Headgate suggests a revolutionary trepanning procedure. Parkgate is a street near the Phoenix Park.

We almost settled on Parnellgate, but the whole idea of scandal aligned with the name Parnell (see the entire works of James A. Joyce for more) seemed already taken. We’ll keep going, though; we’ll come up with something.

Fallout from the Donnycarney Kiss that Monaghan’s Tommy Freeman received at the end of last Sunday’s NFL game against Dublin continues to fall all around us like radioactive spores from a nuclear explosion.