Cabinet bigmouth strikes again in the southern capital

YESTERDAY the entire Cabinet showed up in Cork to prove that there’s at least one aspect of the Government decentralisation programme that’s more or less going to plan.

Like Charlie McCreevy’s big idea for entire Government departments, this little project to bring democracy to the people hasn’t delivered on all the promises.

Initially billed as a regular occurrence, yesterday’s Cabinet meeting was the first outside the capital since the meeting in Emo, Co Laois 21 months ago.