The Oireachtas Summer holidays traditionally signal the start of “silly season” – that time of year when regular news sort of dries up, and fellas like me have to take to writing about silly stories to keep the news ticking over. If, over the coming six weeks, you start reading something about a rabbit in Cork that’s developed a fondness for basketball, then be assured that it’s just journalists with nothing else to write about searching high and low for anything at all.
For Government, though, the summer break provides an opportunity for something of a re-set. There is no weekly Dáil questioning. The news agenda slows down. There are no debates on bills or laws, and there is little to distract Ministers, in terms of political fights.
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