Ray Burke did not have an extravagant lifestyle, even though he received large sums of money. Somebody put it to me that he was in the habit of squirrelling things aways. Squirrels do go up trees in north Dublin but the nuts tend to be hidden in the ground. The details do not present an edifying picture. However, businessmen can be extremely naive when it comes to politics. Of course, as is clear from famous cases in the past – and I am thinking of the French playwright Beaumarchais – if a payment is corrupt, not only the person receiving it is corrupt but also the people giving the payment, even including people who may be tribunal heroes.