Bugged by attitudes, shattered by scandal, and no one listening

Who’s bugging whom?

That was the question which dominated a confusing day in the Dáil when everyone was all ears, but no one was really listening — or were they?

Enda Kenny was clearly bugged by the attitude of the Garda Siochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC), but the Taoiseach had a strangely relaxed attitude as to whether the body charged with policing the police had itself been put under electronic surveillance.