Is the public service really fit for purpose?

THEY’RE calling it Croke Park II even though it wasn’t hatched within an ass’s roar of the GAA’s headquarters.

Last week’s deal on public sector pay is likely to ensure that the old stadium will once again be subjected to all forms of abuse, merely because three years ago it provided a room in which peace-talks were hatched.

This time around the deal was done across town in Lansdowne House, so maybe it’s time to back off and desist from taking Croker’s name in vain in the fire and brimstone to come.