If it was an orange gun, we would have seen it

Many of our readers will have experienced the chaos of Dublin Airport. Not entirely surprisingly, it turns out the culture of official indifference at the airport extends to security as well:

RTÉ News has learned that an investigation is underway at Dublin Airport after reports of major breaches of security over the past few days.

The breaches were discovered during a security audit by the European Civil Aviation Council and the Department of Transport.

Inspectors managed to conceal knives in their shoes, a knife was hidden inside an item of women's underwear, a handgun was smuggled in down the back of one man's trousers and, most significantly, a replica bomb was concealed inside a bag for check-in.

Don't they know that Dublin airport security guards are most likely to pay attention when the offending item is a Glasgow Rangers jersey?