A few weeks ago…..Slugger O’Toole……brought us namesake the peerless Fintan O’Toole’s take on the imprisonment of Sean Quinn junior. He was……just after one night sent to a “soft” regime in Mountjoy. We were invited to tut-tut as Slugger went into hibernophobic mode. The Irish Justice System favouring the “rich” white collar criminal.

You wouldnt find that kinda thing happening in Britain, would you? Step forward Conservative peer Jeffrey Archer jailed for Perjury who was given day release to attend the theatre….and to have lunch with Conservative MP, Gillian Shepherd.

Ooops…..it seems that rich people do a tad better in prison than most of the poorer people.

Which brings me to Antrim….where several “paralympic teams” have been in training for the Paralympic Games which start in London at the weekend. Three members of the team from Jordan have been arrested and charged with sexual offences against women and children.

Yesterday they were granted bail (!) and seemingly there was an intervention from the “King of Jordan”. The three bailed athletes are back home in Jordan already. Will they ever return? Well if they dont the “King of Jordan” will have to cough up some (to him) petty cash.

Have the three Jordanian athletes been treated more favourably because of the intervention of their “King”? Perhaps a thread on Slugger O’Toole would clear it all up for us.

Meanwhile there is much tut-tutting on Slugger O’Toole that Julian Assange has been holed up in the London embassy of Ecuador and the Ecauadorians are facilitating Assange in not facing charges of a sexual nature in Sweden. Releasing three Jordanians (facing charges of a sexual nature) to Jordan (not a country overly concerned with the rights of women) seems a bit unusual.

Of course…..Norn Iron was completely looked over for the Olympics itself. “Team GB” (sic) could not even bring themselves to mention “Norn Iron” and no Olympic events took place in Norn Iron (events DID take place in Scotland and Wales). So the involvement of Norn Iron in Paralympic preparation has not worked out well. The feelgood narrative has been shot to pieces.

Of course there is no way that the PSNI could turn a blind eye to cases involving sexual abuse. Yet in any jamboree which are provided for us by PR companies, stuff happens. A lot of giants from the business community visit here. Are they really going to be charged with after hours drinking? Movies and TV series are made in Belfast…….MTV Awards are held here…….is there ever going to be a heavy-handed search of hotel rooms to find a “joint”?

Nope…..we are obliged to only have “feel good” stories.