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I’ve noted before that there are times in this place when you feel like you’re living in an episode of Father Ted. A recent example comes from a Belfast City Council discussion over whether or not a small community festival in the Wedderburn area of Finaghy should get the go-ahead to use a local council-run park.

The Republic’s Justice Minister Helen McEntee this week told an Oireachtas committee meeting that 80% of the migrants arriving into the south currently come in via Northern Ireland and then travel on down across the border.

The world is not a happy place right now. It’s a job even trying to keep up with which threat to humankind is currently topping the cataclysm charts. War, climate change, economic instability and an unusually large number of world leaders who are frankly certifiable.

The story of The Emperor’s New Clothes goes like this - a very rich emperor who loves to dress up is approached by a team of designer weavers who tell him that they’ll make him a fabulous new outfit at an extravagant price. So avant garde will this suit of clothes be, that to stupid, common people it will seem to be invisible.

The revelation that Christy Kinahan Sr, notorious gangster and one of the world’s most wanted drug kingpins, has been taking time out from running his crime empire to post online restaurant reviews is a turn-up for the recipe books.