"It might well be that the historic duty of the PDs is similarly over…" Kevin Myers is in fine form today (Irish Independent). In a piece entitled "Fur will surely fly again when the big cat returns to the jungle" he writes about his personal experience of Michael McDowell as an interrogator. It wouldn’t be right to quote from such a good piece: find it and enjoy it for yourself. The esteemed blogger, John of Dublin, has also written well of McDowell.