One of the visitors to Camp Shamrock for St Patrick's Day was Quidnunc's old friend from Belfast days, the British journalist Robert Fisk, who now lives in Dublin - occasionally.
His acclaimed book, Pity The Nation; Lebanon At War, has been an international bestseller since it was published in 1990, but is now banned in Lebanon. Why? Sources say that some senior Lebanese don't come out of it too well and neither do the Syrians, because of drug smuggling in their area many years ago.
Yet the autobiography of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu is freely on sale in Arabic and Israel is Lebanon's enemy.