MCD has a lot to answer for. The company’s incompetent organization of the Barbra Streisand geezer gig caused the national airwaves and press to be inundated with plaints from the well-heeled and tin-eared. During a pretty slow news week (just the usual mayhem in Iraq and the risible efforts to turn the Rachel O’Reilly murder trial into some sort of homegrown O.J. circus), radio and newspapers have treated tales of trying to leave the carpark after the concert as though it were an experience only marginally less harrowing than clambering onto the last Huey out of Saigon .

If things weren’t grim enough, the whole debacle prompted David McWilliams’s patented Insto-Stereotype Machine to whir into life. And, lo: in today’s Indo we have…The Streisand Generation!

“The real economic significance of the Streisand debacle, which from the reports sounds truly appalling, is the commercial power and influence of this new group in Irish society – this Streisand Generation. These are middle-aged rich kids who have loads of cash and they are spending it. This is the generation that refuses to age.”

Sounds like an argument for mandatory euthanasia…