So Bertie is ashamed of Ireland for using the peann luaidhe. He wants us to switch to the electronic voting machines that his government wasted so much of the taxpayers' money on. Then he will be able to hold his head high in his meetings with other world leaders.

The British Government have been protesting internationally recently about the detention of fifteen of their Navy personnel by the Iranian Authorities. They insist that there is no way that British Personnel could have strayed into Iranian territory by mistake. They have produced (Several days after the fact) maps, diagrams and pictures to support their claims. Oh how little things have changed.