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As bars go, this one was not a place you would choose to go on the spree as it sold more coffee and tea than alcohol. Yet for all that, it was still a public house, so the sight of the late Ian Paisley sitting quietly in a corner, albeit with an outsize pot of tea and focused on a well-thumbed Bible, was strangely disquieting.
One of the haunting images that lingers with me from a decade of reporting from Brussels is that of two beautiful young girls, Julie and Melissa. The pair had gone missing and their distraught parents used some very imaginative methods to let everyone in Belgium, and beyond, see their photos.
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has been asked by the Government to examine whether laws that criminalise the intimidation and obstruction of politicians carrying out their work are being used effectively in the wake of hostile protests outside Leinster House this week.
You could fit that disparate group who caused uproar outside Leinster House into a couple of double-decker buses.
I welcome the Taoiseach’s public apology to Dr Tony Holohan, long overdue for a man and his family who sacrificed much for our country. We forget so easily.