Ministers have their priorities wrong

You begin to get some idea of the mindset of the present government when you see its most senior minister almost falling over himself to fawn at the feet of an American billionaire as he arrives at Shannon Airport, followed up by another senior minister being prepared to stand up in front of the cameras to do PR for Bausch and Lomb, to tell its workers to kowtow to its masters, or else...

Then the minister for transport performs a similar function for the management of Aer Lingus and Irish Rail.

Most worryingly, all of these ministers have convinced themselves that they are doing the right thing by siding with these vested interests, rather than the voters who elected them.