The behemoth of Irish Water is lurching from one fiasco to another

The current controversy regarding Irish Water is completely of the Governments own making.

Their backbenchers are running scared because of it and with good reason because Big Phil has rightly landed them in it before he went off to Europe.

Even allowing for the troika requirements, there never was a need to establish the Irish Water albatross. The Troika wanted the Government to introduce a charge for water. This could have been achieved in a similar manner to the household charge which was successfully operated by Revenue.