Rockall rumpus fails to set the Scottish heather alight

There was scant mention of the dispute between the Irish and Scottish governments on newspaper front pages on the other side of the Sea of Moyle

‘Rockall seems to be weirdly big news in Ireland but no one here cares about it,” one Scottish political commentator said to me last week. While the debate over the 17 metre high slab of granite in the North Atlantic Ocean raged in Ireland, in Scotland, Rockall was certainly not setting the heather alight.

There was scant mention of the dispute between the Irish and Scottish governments on newspaper front pages on the ...