PDs show a taste for gombeen politics

ON RTÉ radio recently, Justice Minister Michael McDowell admitted he’d had his arm twisted by PD deputy Mae Sexton to decentralise the Prison Service HQ to her constituency.

Coupled with the decentralisation antics of Tom Parlon, this is further proof that the PDs are just as capable of gombeen politics as their government allies, with whom many of their members obviously share a gene pool.

The PDs like to see the current government arrangement as a coalition of the upright and the bent, as evidenced by McDowell’s behaviour before the last election when he urged voters to return the PDs to power with Fianna Fáil on the basis that FF could not be trusted to govern on their own. We’re now seeing the proof that power corrupts even the PDs, and McDowell is learning the truth of the old adage that if you lie down with dogs, you’ll get up with fleas.