Bertie is making a dog’s dinner out of the party’s herd of sacred cows

SEÁN HAUGHEY has commanded acres of newsprint in the past week while the Taoiseach has been savaged for dithering so long over the appointment of a replacement for Ivor Callely and then getting it so badly wrong.

Bertie has been criticised for being too timid, too secretive, and downright inept for not appointing Haughey to the vacant post of minister of state.

If Bertie had appointed Haughey, would the media have welcomed it, or would they have tried to have it both ways and savaged him for promoting the squireen? Some might have questioned whether Seán Haughey had ever done anything to merit his appointment.