Again, we read about drunken passengers on board flightsto Malta.

According to Ryanair’s website, the weekday flight from Edinburgh to Malta leaves at 7.30 in the morning.

Why is the airport authority in Scotland allowing drinking at 7.30am?

In the 1930s, Fr Anton Calleja, from the Lady of Mount Carmel parish of Gżira, had imposed his own methods of retribution on drunken Royal Navy sailors.

Dun Anton was a massive man, standing over six feet tall. He always wore a jet-black cassock. He was also an accomplished amateur boxer.

He would often do an evening tour of the bars, bawling out the barmaids with cries of “shame” and threats of everlasting fire and brimstone.

Any sailor who had the drunken temerity to interfere or intervene would get a good tongue-lashing followed by a black eye and a cut lip.

Can we find somewhere in Malta which is dark and damp and lock these drunks up for a while as a deterrent to others who make flights to Malta so unpleasant?