Taoiseach, don’t just change the faces — change the portfolios

Dear Taoiseach, it’s me again. Despite all my helpful suggestions a week or two ago about the reshuffle, I’m reading in the media that your plans are very minimalist.

I presume this is all based on gossip, and that you haven't been planting the stories yourself.

Certainly, the political correspondents are now so convinced that it is only going to be three people down and three up that if you go any further some of them are going to have coronaries.