Dirty work at the boundary - Time to close this tainted chapter

‘If Christopher Columbus had an advisory committee, he would probably still be at the dock.’ US Supreme Court justice, Arthur Goldberg

Dirty work at the boundary - Time to close this tainted chapter

Committees are indispensable, if tedious, cogs in the machinery of democracy.

But, as our special report today on the Cork City versus Cork County boundary struggle reveals in forensic detail, they can take an exceedingly long time to produce nothing whatsoever other than — at considerable cost — rejected reports, and email trails that, on paper, would stretch from one end of the county to the other and back.

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