ALAN Clark, the wonderfully politically-incorrect Tory MP who died last weekend, had the following to say to Ian Gow in the Cavalry Club in August 1985 just before Gow resigned from Margaret Thatcher's government over the Anglo-Irish Agreement: "Ireland is a ghastly subject. Intractable. Insoluble. For centuries it has blighted English domestic politics, wrecked the careers of good men." (Diaries) 14 years later, what can one say?