The press goes after them on irrelevant issues.

Similarly, lawyers can waste an enormous amount of time on irrelevant issues because it seems to them that certain trivial points ought to be important.

I was commenting on another issue, irrelevant to the article, as Eddie Wilson said.

He swept aside criticism of the relief effort, saying it was an "irrelevant" issue that fascinated only the news media.

But the two often quarrel and fight over irrelevant issues.

When I moved to Uganda four and a half years ago, homosexuality seemed to be almost an irrelevant issue.

"Provided it is arranged on a businesslike basis, without irrelevant issues."

But it kept changing the subject, asking her opinion on various irrelevant issues such as human sexual mores.

Mr. King said later that he understood the impact an "irrelevant issue" might have on an election.

"We think, frankly, while that is not an irrelevant issue, it is a bit of a red herring."