No matter how hard you might try, or indeed wish to, to cheer the announcement yesterday that the Government is to change disciplinary procedures to make it easier to sack underperforming civil servants, it requires a considerable leap of faith to believe that change is imminent.

It was another bad day for Irish Water yesterday and another bad day for one of this Government’s centrepiece initiatives.

Court of Appeal

Stem cell research conference

Nursing homes waiting list

Future of farming

Mental health supports

Foy birth cert action ended

Resolving our homes crisis

Pension apartheid