Yes vote will boost EU bid to trim structures and end jobs for the boys

IF, when Brian Cowen was elected Taoiseach he decided to get rid of one-third of his junior ministers who had been appointed by the former Taoiseach, he would have been applauded.

Many would have congratulated him for reversing a decision that effectively guaranteed “jobs for the boys”.

Yet when Brussels does exactly that, there is an outcry from the no side.