Latest joke from the north: as the wrangle over the RUC name goes on, and on, news broke at Stormont this week that in order to preserve the name in perpetuity, Tony and Cherie Blair are to christen their forthcoming baby RUC.
And finally, from a reader, a poem
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
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It plaintly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather I am wrong or write
It shows me straight a weigh
As soon a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rar lea ever wrong
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect all the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
Quidnunc is at rholohan@irish-times.ie