Diary of a Dissenter: A Week From My Window

The reason men ought not be placed in women’s prisons is that they are men, not that they are violent men, or dangerous men, or madmen.

Another Fine Mess . . . 

SATURDAY I

The public intervention of the Tánaiste mehole in the Enoch Burke affair ought to be enough to put him (the appalling Martin, I mean) in jail for contempt of court. His attack on the Burke family is also probably the most mean-spirited and, I would say, manifestly panic-stricken interjection by a politician that I have …