With or without McCreevy, FF are now setting about buying your vote

WHEN he proclaimed his dogma of decentralisation, it was not Charlie McCreevy’s intention that he should lead by example.

Very few politicians, if any, subscribe to that tenet, so, it’s ironic that he will be one of the first, possibly one of the few, to depart the capital when he decamps to Brussels.

In fact, he may well be on his way back from there before any of the 10,300 civil servants are scattered, like the tribes of Israel, to 53 locations around the country.