When moribund body language threatens to derail the bus debate

You don’t often get Government ministers casting dead bodies in the path of senior civil servants, but Robert Watt had barely finished an expository sentence on an interesting transport-related topic when Shane Ross made with the dead bodies. 

Well, dead body singular. To be honest, Shane isn’t a reckless corpse-thrower and, to give him his due, it was his own corpse he was offering, in the fine old tradition of “over my dead body”.

Over his dead body was evil Mr Watt, him who sits at the top of the department mandated to control public expenditure, going to stop elderly citizens of this State from travelling for free on public transport whenever the hell they want to.