Brosnan faces an uphill battle to save the mid-west

THE report of the Limerick Local Government Committee was one of the most radical ever drawn up to overhaul dysfunctional local government in this country.

Not surprisingly – given that the report chairman was Denis Brosnan – it contains no fudging.

After all, a young Denis Brosnan sat in a caravan in a field outside Listowel in 1970 with a few others and from there set out on a mission that was to lead to the development of the biggest food ingredients corporation in the world, which now employs over 20,000.