I couldn’t supress a small cheer when I read that the new twins born to the Taoiseach’s daughter Georgina were to be called Jay and Rocco.

Rocco is the abbreviation of Roch, and St Roch is my very favourite saint and one whom I have written about already

St Roch is always depicted lifting his skirt to display the scars which were inflicted on him by the plague. As this picture by the 15th century Italian Master Crivelli shows, his various patron sainthoods should perhaps be extended from the Plague, and Dogs etc. to that of the patron saint of Exhibitionists.