A young biker lost his life on Saturday evening.

I am a biker, as is my son, and it is in the nature of biking that when a brother or sister goes down, you feel it more keenly, and when your nearest and dearest are out on the road, each news report gives you a jolt.

So when an Anthony Sultana saw fit to comment on "a fetal or near fetal accident every day, I voted for a change ,we need enforcement before more people get hurt .Hefty fines are cheaper than accidents." I was disgusted for more than one reason.

Leave aside the spelling, betraying as it does the writer's forma mentis even before his own words established him as a Labour voter. Leave aside also the fact that this is a Labour voter. My disgust would have been the same if he had said he was a PN voter or a Green.

How dare this - I'm struggling for a word to express my contempt that doesn't go beyond the pale - how dare this person even allow the thought that this was an appropriate time to make a cheap political comment to cross what passes for his mind?

Quite apart from anything else, he has not even the faintest clue how the accident happened, whether it was speeding, a mechanical issue with the bike, other traffic users' inconsiderateness or whatever.

I live and bike in the real world: given the boy's age, it is likely that he wasn't tootling along at below the speed-limit.

But so what?

He's dead, his parents and friends are distraught, the others involved in the accident are no doubt in shock, and yet Anthony Sultana, someone who thinks he has something important to say, decides that what is important is that he tells us that he voted for a change.