Trying to tackle the poor IFA image

Aside from watching the email correspondence flurring backwards and forwards between IFAs about Jeremy Clarkson’s views of IFAs – describing them in his weekend newspaper column as “a long and complicated way of saying ‘thief’” – which clearly have not gone down well, an IFA friend and I came face-to-face with Joe Public earlier this week, in a public house of all places. It’s likely we weren’t exactly in the correct frame of mind to tackle the situation as constructively as we might have liked – ie the alcohol had been flowing for quite some time and our IFA may have lost the argument ea...