This time it’s Dempsey who says he delivered

NO sooner had the ink dried on the Government’s 10-year plan than the posters went up in Navan.

“Dempsey Delivers, Other’s Talk” reads the all-colour posters hung by local campaigners on behalf of Communications Minister Noel Dempsey.

In an extraordinary reprise of Tom Parlon’s stunt following the decentralisation announcement, the senior Fianna Fáil TD, to all intents and purposes, declared that Meath was ‘Dempsey Country’.