Today is one of those days.

Is it a case of keeping his image way from all the negative news out there at the moment or is he busy cooking up some other fiasco?

Unless a proper independent board is set up to oversee police action we will forever be in the same mire of a situation.

As recent history shows, our journalists are at risk as they are usually the first to speak out.

A few other innocents usually get beaten up, arrested and prosecuted just to prove a point.

We were very close to a police killing with the Sheehan case and our journalistic elbow-room showed it up for what it was.