Planning Tribunal parallels abound

No public inquiry reaching into the dark recesses of Irish life is complete without a shady figure stepping into the light to seek redemption. So it went in the Planning Tribunal. So it goes now with the Disclosures Tribunal.

Those two inquiries have more in common than being conducted in Dublin Castle.

The planning inquiry delved into the murky world of brown envelopes passed between developers and councillors in a transaction designed to turn muck into gold through rezoning.