Hypocritical of the media to support Seanad

The campaign of media and academia to reject the abolish-the-Seanad recommendation replicates the hypocrisy and stupidity of the bankrupting of the country during the Celtic Tiger.

Many of the former leading lights in government and the media opposed last week’s effort to streamline democracy — the Seanad is for hangers-on. The cynicism of those who made or supported the policies that bankrupted the country is breathtaking.

They decry austerity but advocate the retention of the expensive talking-shop Seanad.