Ministers should try a ‘truth session’ and risk an honest answer for once

THERE’S a section in Donal Óg Cusack’s excellent autobiography where he details how the Cloyne senior hurling squad and its management held “truth meetings”.

These were straight-talking sessions at which each member was required to tell truthfully what he thought of the efforts of his colleagues — and to listen to what was being said in turn about his performance.

It sounds like a recipe for potential disaster — and, as Cusack relates, one player left the squad alleging bullying — but he maintains it provided the basis for the club’s on-field successes.