Touch screens a metaphor for a government on the blink

SO, it’s come to this: ministers handed out tablets to keep the media awake at the latest smugtastic Government announcement about very little.

Luckily, the tablets were not uppers, but 20 rather swanky HP Elitepads, which retail for up to €640 each.

Rather ironic, given that the press conference was to show how ministers were ruthlessly cutting costs in the public service, as the pads, though swish, did not add much that was not available in the paper documents handed out with them.