Why do we elect people so un-suited to their basic job?
Grown-ups know not to light matches in the airing cupboard where the linen is tinder-dry or to go searching for a gas leak with a lit candle.
Just complete rubbish.
You might say, “but John, that was a once in a hundred year storm, there’s nothing Government could have done”. The problem is, this simply isn’t true.
Readers who observe these things will also perhaps note the grovelling being done by the Irish Government towards the new Trump administration
We have a nationally accepted expectation that our politicians will act in the local interest first, and the national interest second.
The biggest open prize has already gone to Hugh O’Connell of the Sunday Times
Debt, manufacturing, immigration – and how to measure whether he gets anything done.
The world will not, and should not, miss him.
This being a democracy, we get what we vote for. In this case, it appears that the public voted for a Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael scramble for Ministries and Mercs.
How do you improve upon the most moral and good little country ever conceived of by mankind?
Lowry is now so popular there that he even has five county councillors, including his son, Micheál, on his side, so enabling voters to tell them apart: like fada, like son.