United States President Joe Biden has recently been through his beloved Ireland, less like a dose of salts than a river of soothing treacle.
The normally measured and non-editorialising media here found themselves on a royal tour-style footing, reduced to intoning, over extended nightly coverage, things like, “What flavour of oice cream d’ye tink he’ll choose here in Dundalk?”
Resistance would have been churlish. Were any