‘You’ve done more damage than Hitler’

IN REACTION terms, the words ‘An Taisce’ have the same effect on some rural TDs as the words ‘Mick McCarthy’ have on Roy Keane.

An Taisce was one of the organisations that appeared before the Oireachtas Committee on the Environment yesterday to talk about the issue of rural housing and to be faced down by TDs and senators.

It was the kind of encounter where you’d be advised to put your seat belt on beforehand. Some kind of combustion was inevitable.