Not each other, unfortunately. No, Amanda is smacking the kiddies while Paul McGrath is allegedly beating the elderly about the head. That's what happens when you offer strangers a lift home.
Firstly, to Brunker Baps. Yesterday, when on the telly (Ireland AM), Amanda said: "When the naughty step doesn't work, when the taking the toys away doesn’t work I have smacked them hard enough to leave a visible mark. I don't do it often but at least I am honest. People try to be too PC. The older one I don't have to smack hardly ever now, but the younger one I would do more because he is still learning (about pain). Now I have the threat of the smack and that alone means I don't have to do it that much because they know what the consequence will be."
Needless to say, the ISPCC were straight on the blower, saying: "We do understand that there's no such thing as a perfect parent. Times have changed but some parents haven't learnt a replacement discipline method for hitting."
Brunker responded with: "I feel validated and I am representing the common person in what I say, It's not like it's all the time that I would smack them, and I know there is a different between smacking children and beating a child. If this has ignited a debate, then so be it, but people should not be ashamed to say how they discipline their children."
Moving on to page 7 of The Irish Daily Mirror, we have Paul McGrath terrorising the good Samaritans of Ferns (nice of him to take the heat off certain members of the clergy), when not one but two people tried to help him home. The incident in question happened in the wee hours of Monday morning: "McGrath is said to have struck Noel Pepper (in his 60s) several times on the head before stealing his car and driving it to a nearby hotel. Mr. Pepper tried to help the drunken footballer when he got caught up in a scuffle with another man who was attempting to bring him home... McGrath's alleged violent outburst shocked the people of Fern who are gutted to hear the self-confessed alcoholic is back on the booze. A source said: 'He was drinking in a pub on Sunday night. A man offered him a life home, but he started getting aggressive so he stopped the car and threw him out on the side of the road. Another man stopped an offered to take McGrath hoe and he hit him around the head a few times. Then he took the car and drive it towards Enniscorthy... we feel sorry for this man. McGrath shouldn't be allowed to get away with it just because of who he is." That should probably read "who he was."
So, did McGrath get arrested? A Gardai spokesperson said: "There have been no arrests. We will follow the normal course of action. A stolen car would be part of the report." People don't get arrested for stealing cars anymore?! Quick, to the Four Season car park!
Right. There's no point in discussing McGrath, 'cause what he did was just wrong, pathetic, unwittingly hilarious (just me, again? *hangs head*) and he has to live with himself. The subject of Brunker, on the other hand, is open to debate...