Limerick is the perfect place to start a local government revolution

IN his letter (October 23), John Mulligan states that genuine reform of local government needs to happen. I agree.

The county structure must be one of the greatest inhibitors to good governance in Ireland. In local government we take the view that every county is an island. Hence every county wants ‘its own’ of whatever another county has – an airport, a university, a motorway, a railway line, a hospital, etc.

This scale of misplaced ambition is backed at a local level by politicians who spend as much time as possible raising issues that are best discussed in a comedy club or a pub.