Buying time on another scandal: It’s time to break circle of wagons

THE 1992 Siege of Sarajevo is the longest siege of a capital city in modern history. 

It lasted nearly four years — three years, 10 months, three weeks and three days. It was hi-tech barbarism and showed civilisation is often a veneer unequal to our darkest angels. The people of Sarajevo endured persistent horrors but showed great courage.

Their heroic resilience, however, is a thing of nothing compared to the steadfastness, the stonewalling of Irish organisations that obstruct change by waiting for those who would intrude on their world to go away, to retire, to lose public office or just run out of energy. These organisations live by the boxing maxim: “The winner is not the fighter who can inflict the most pain, but the one who can endure most.”