Cormac MacConnell: Trucks are lethal in the wrong hands

A leading surgeon, with half the letters of the alphabet after his name, went into his operating theatre this very morning to go to work.

It could have been in Dublin or in any of our leading big hospitals. Let’s assume that he was a cardiac surgeon in his prime, undertaking a delicate operation to save the life of the patient on the table.

This surgeon in his sterile theatre, as he began his day, was surrounded and assisted in his work by at least €1m worth of the most advanced hi-tech equipment in the world, and by a team of 10 or 12 professionals, including an assistant surgeon.