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In the same way that pre-Michelle Smith, the Irish Olympic swimming team used to hail a competition a success if none of them was drowned, let’s be honest, weren’t we glad when both the Queen and Obama got out of Ireland alive? Not that there was ever a serious threat to their respective healths while they were here, but there was always the fear that a member of the South Offaly-North Tipperary branch of Al Qaeda might attack him with a hurl or that that dissy-dent republicans might savage the Queen with a Turbot snatched from the shelves of the English Market. We all breathed a sigh of relief when their planes left the ground and rose into that part of sky that Cork radio presenters know as non-indictable international airspace out of our jurisdiction.

DARING, PROVOCATIVE, thought-provoking, and brilliantly funny, Abie Philbin Bowman is one of the most intelligent and gifted young Irish comedians to emerge in the last few years.

Everyone can appreciate good art that blends, that flows, that parallels in subject and form and matter. But what happens when you put on a show with none of that? A show that is deliberately random? Well, then you get Shuffle, the brilliant exhibition on now at No 1 Merchants Road.

Prince Charles last week delivered an impassioned speech in which he warned that “the world had less than 100 months to save the planet.” He warned that as the world’s economy headed deeper into recession it would be easy to lose sight of the bigger picture and forget the reality that the world is facing significant levels of climate change and global warming.