A young whippersnapper reporter sneaks into a potato bagging factory. He tears open a bag labelled Queens. They’re not Queens. He slowly tears open another. Same thing. He tears faster and faster until he is surrounded by Not Queens. He stares into the distance. ‘This goes all the way to the top.’

Two people from Bray/Greystones have independently said to me that nothing reminds them more that they don’t actually live in Dublin than when it’s MEP election time and they have to vote in Ireland South

I could be totally wrong about this but I can't think of any suburban Starbuckses in DCC areas. There's one in Sutton (Fingal CC) and loads in DL-R but I'm wondering if DCC refuses planning permission if it's not in the city centre.