Let people fill the credibility gap by giving them a direct Dáil role

WAY back in 1774 it was Edmund Burke who described what it means to represent people in a democracy. Of course, old Mr Burke had never heard of Ivor Callely.

Nor, I imagine, had he ever dreamt that a mature democracy would tolerate and encourage eejits.

If he had, he might have been a bit more circumspect in his famous speech to the electors of Bristol.