Why scapegoat the Merrion St mandarins?

I’M reading a book that details how the prime minister and the chancellor of the exchequer in London, whose policies were responsible for a million people dying during the Great Famine here, used the media of the time to scapegoat Charles Trevelyan, the assistant secretary to the treasury.

Nothing much changes. Your columnist Ivan Yates (July 1) is doing the same thing.

He is helping those who formed a government that nearly bankrupted the country to scapegoat the public service and specifically the Department of Finance.