mystic pizza

News has come through that an IRA mafia capo who styles himself Thomas Slab Murphy has been found guilty of tax evasion in the Special Criminal Court of the Republic of Ireland.
I admit to being somewhat surprised that our IRA infiltrated courts system was capable of convicting him of anything.
No surprise of course in the decision to let him out on bail over the Christmas period.
Rah men love to be loose at Crimbo.
One aspect of the case did give me a wry smile.
According to the Irish Independent newspaper this man's home address is in a townland called Hackballscross.
Not for the first time, I am struck by the queer synchronicity that gilds our wraith like passage through the cosmos.