Despite Simon Harris’s claims of ignorance, Israel’s national airline illegally transported well over a tonne of handguns to Israel through Irish territory this January.

NAMA chief Brendan McDonagh’s north Dublin home – which The Ditch revealed yesterday was registered under the alias PB McDonnacha – is being advertised to rent on a short-term letting site for more than €10,000 a week.

NAMA chief Brendan McDonagh – set to become government’s housing tsar – registered ownership of his home using the alias “PB McDonnacha” despite taking out a mortgage on the same property in his own name.

Somewhere in Ireland is the manliest man in the country, someone giving a virtuoso performance of the gender, who adheres to all we consider the masculine norm. He’s possibly happy and healthy, unconscious of the criteria he fulfils, that these criteria even exist.

In the past two months a Kildare company sent three shipments of components to the largest supplier of weapons to the Israel Defense Forces.