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There is an untold glee in finding out about the private life of an outwardly puritan couple

SURELY AT this point we are entitled to ask what the flip is going on in Northern Ireland? No, no, on second thoughts we don’t want to know – we’ve had enough revelations. One small island can only take so much. When we ask what the flip is going on in Northern Ireland we do not want yet another jaw-dropping story of domestic misery – although hearing about inappropriate adult sex is always cheering in these circumstances. Rather, we wish to establish when exactly the switch between urban war zone and Brazilian soap opera took place.