Cabinet ignoring the headline issues on their return

The new political season may be under way with the Cabinet reassembling, but coalition chiefs were only concerned about putting on a new face mask for the unreal political world they inhabit says Political Correspondent, Shaun Connolly

PLANES, strains, and automatons dominated as the new political season dawned. Suddenly, the nation was no longer leaderless as the Cabinet reassembled while the Dáil continued on in its well-deserved two month long summer break.

Not that the Cabinet actually did anything mind, except live up to its reputation as a sit down session for political automatons — which the dictionary defines as “robots that behave, or respond, in a mechanical way.”