SMOKES & DAGGERS
A mischievous mix of (mostly) news
MIX-UP during the empanelling of a jury in Co Donegal made us chuckle this week. Just as the trial was about to begin, counsel for the State Patricia McLaughlin told Judge Terence O’Sullivan a potentially serious issue had arisen as one of the jurors had written ‘barrister’ as her profession on the jury enrolment sheet. Barristers are barred from jury service. The woman was called out from the jury room and Judge O’Sullivan asked her if she was a barrister. The puzzled woman replied: ‘I’m a barista.’ FG’s Josepha Madigan, left, posted a snap of a sign she encountered while canvassing. ‘No Junk Mail, No unsolicited mail, no cold callers, no salespersons, no surveys, no charity bags,’ it read. ‘It doesn’t say “No Canvassers”,’ she tweeted. a million dollars), but the pricing at its coffee dock is delightfully thrifty. A scone costs 45c, a croissant just 70c, and a 12oz Americano is €1.20. We’re probably subsidising the regulators, but at least they’ll be alert going into the next financial crisis… Ireland, Sir Ivor Roberts, has just become an Irish citizen. Giving an insight into the untold Brexit hardships Britons will face, he explained this week: ‘We have a house in Italy and I don’t want to find myself queuing to get through Rome Airport every time I go there.’ The humanity! DAVID Davin Power retired from RTÉ this week. Amid general tributes, there was one sour note from the tiresome Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, who tweeted that DDP, left, was ‘dismissive, aloof, elitist’. It clearly didn’t bother the RTÉ man, though, who retweeted the insult.