Brexit in pyre straits over pallets blunder

BREXITEERS were faced with the unpalatable truth of their folly this week when it emerged the UK might not be able to export their goods to the EU because of a shortage of, er, pallets.

In what could be a scene from Monty Python, the British government held an emergency meeting on Tuesday to discuss the pallet crisis.

A month away from Brexit, the UK only realised now there is an acute shortage of the “right sort” of pallets to import and export goods in the event of a no-deal EU split.

Surely this is a job for the DUP and their loyalist pals as they seem to be able to come up with a mountain of them every July for Eleventh Night bonfires.

IT might be time for the

State enforce mandatory jabs to sav children from serious diseases and their seriously reckless parents.

The country is on the brink of a mumps epidemic with 400 cases s far this year, six times as many as t same period last year and the sole reason for this is the refusal of irresponsible mums and dads. Diseases which had been largely eliminated are making a comeback and children will die as a result of people believing pseudoscience nonsense on social media.

If this logic is followed through parents should maybe consult their friendly Facebook crank if their chil becomes ill rather than their docto

IT is right that the Taoiseach should call for a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane but I have a feeling it will be ignored in London.

For should that happen it will expose the British establishment as a murder machine every bit as bad, if not worse, than the Provisional IRA.

Britain was supposed to represent the forces of law and order while the IRA were portrayed as the terrorists and that would all change if the truth was revealed.

When a state sanctions the murder of a solicitor – an officer of the court of that country – in front of his wife and children there can be no other description but terrorism.