Chris de Burgh is to become the first "Western Artist" to play a concert in Iran since the revolution in 1979. This honour has'nt gone un-noticed by the Irish press which seem to think its great.

Well at least the fecker will be miles away is one plus.

My concern is for the ordinary Iranian people, at present they live under the following circumstances,

• The constant threat of being attacked by George W Bush
• An economy that is hyper-inflationary with mass un-employment
• A U.N. (US backed) embargo on just about everything.
• A Dictatorship that will not allow any level of free speech to occur.

So the Iranian Government not content that its people are suffering enough have decided that an few verses of "Lady in Red" will lift spirits.

Well it will not lift anything except depression rates, Chris on the other hand gets to gig, a novelty for him,( smarmy gimp) and I suppose a bit of exposure, albeit in a closed country, next stop North Korea.

He'll probably be top of the charts in both countries in 2008, which like his music will be meaningless due to the fact that nobody has any money to buy records,(or what ever you call them now).

This does not rank the same as other recent comebacks, Take That, The Police,to name two.

I feel sorry for the ordinary Iranian and North Korean, would you not think that de Burgh would simple feck off and retire and leave us all alone.