Water can’t wash away Siteserv stench

SITESERV can be read as the story of modern Ireland in five easy pieces, writes Michael Clifford

It includes some of the country’s oldest failings, and a few new ones as well. The story holds the secret of business success in some corners, and the failings of politics in others. And, above all, it shows how, even in straitened times, the few will always prosper, while the many take the heat.

The five pieces making up this yarn are The Little People’s Bank; Chinese Walls; Denis O’Brien; Water Meters and The Inquiry.