Cardinal’s idea of personal loyalty is misplaced

WHERE did Cardinal Brady look for inspiration when he declared in Killarney that Bishop Magee should remain in his see?

There are several recent role model examples in Ireland where public confidence and trust in the holder of a public office has been so impaired or totally compromised that he could have referenced.

The chairman and the directors of Fás and the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority, for example, made no such interventions on behalf of the departing chief executives of those bodies when their positions became untenable.