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Super pubs, super fees, super war, super calamity and Northern Ireland. The joys of commentary. And the great question of the day: is Ireland so neutral nowadays that we don't interfere even in our own affairs, asks Vincent Browne

The super war is becoming a super calamity and the contours of that calamity are emerging. The war will take far longer than was envisaged by the war-gamers. The civilian deaths will be far higher and the military deaths will be higher too, perhaps up to 1,000 US and British military fatalities. (What are these poor soldiers dying for?) The devastation of Iraq will be shocking and awesome. And after the "victory", more killings, suicide bombings and maybe a civil war in the north.