Why do we put up with this farce? - Another IT fiasco in HSE

AT a valedictory dinner organised by cabinet colleagues for Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Finance Minister Michael Noonan at Farmleigh, last week, Mr Kenny made a farewell speech. 

He closed it with an entirely appropriate and emotional declaration, underpinned by a challenge to his successor: “This is a wonderful country,” he said, and, pointing to the next man to pick up the baton, Leo Varadkar, Mr Kenny told him to “look after it!”

In the way we all have to recognise that two opposite things can be true at once, if we want to stay sane, it is certainly true that this is a wonderful country, but the negative side of that happy assertion is, sadly, valid, too.