A tale from the Labour Party conference over the May holiday weekend in Tralee has just reached Quidnunc. Barry Desmond, a soon-to-be-replaced member of the Luxembourg-based Court of Auditors, considered one of the cushiest and best paid Euro jobs, went into a shop to buy the Examiner. "I won't sell de paper to ye," said the woman shopkeeper. "Didn't ye deny us Objective 1."