From his time as Ireland's communications minister in 1995 until his re-election to the 31st Dáil, the whiff of corruption has swirled around Michael Lowry.
Doherty is free from the whiff of cordite that swirls around many of the Sinn Féin candidates north and south of the Irish border.
This weekend they face the Republic of Ireland in Group C after victories over the Faroe Islands and Austria, but Schweini's outburst means the slightest whiff of discontent will be pounced upon by the German press.
Since the first iteration of Do They Know It's Christmas came out in the 80s, the celeb charity thing has developed a slight whiff about it.
Some of it has a whiff of Joe Chamberlain and his gas-and-water socialism (no bad thing in my book).
If, that is, anyone still wants a whiff of the gunpowder and sawdust in the rheumaticky old mother of parliaments.
Plus they had plenty of ammunition to attack Ukip: the Tory-Ukip defector Douglas Carswell in 2012 wrote a book advocating the wholesale privatisation of the NHS, and Nuttall posted a letter on his website praising the coalition for bringing "a whiff of privatisation" to the health service.
"The Platform is performing in a staid, unexciting way, and there's a slight whiff of scandal about them.
I wondered why, and the conclusion I came to is not that she had a thing for Jews, but that she was one of those rare politicians without the faintest whiff of antisemitism.
It is strong on the need for a public service ethos, but exudes a faint whiff of corduroy and the 1970s.
It gives the dish, to my fanciful mind, the perfumed whiff of a lavish Mughal banquet.
