It started with shirts and it is ending, gradually, with shirts. The bad blood between Charlie Haughey and Ben Dunne Snr erupted in the US in the 1960s when Charlie had a go at Ben for displaying cheap drip-dry shirts at a World Trade Fair in New York. Such items had no place on the Ireland stand. Dunne snr never forgave him, so when Margaret Heffernan discovered her brother Ben Jnr had been bankrolling Charlie no stone was left unturned to get the facts. The rest is history. This week's shirt jokes even reached the hallowed halls of the Law Society in Blackhall Place where the Justice Media Awards were presented on Thursday. The AG Michael McDowell said it was interesting that amid the controversy a sense of humour had prevailed. He noticed the society's president, Pat O'Connor was wearing a blue shirt. The DG Ken Murphy informed the AG that it wasn't from Charvet of Paris but from Dunnes Stores. To jeers from the guests, O'Connor announced that all his shirts were from Flannerys of Nenagh because his wife was a Flannery of Nenagh.