Don’t let Glin Castle be lost through ignorance

The sale of Glin Castle in Co Limerick is an opportunity for the State to show that it is not still suffering from the illness of knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Enda Kenny and Michael Noonan seem to be cut from the same uncultured cloth as Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen, whose ignorance caused Carton House to be lost to the State and left the taxpayer lumbered with massive budget overspends in the purchase and tarting up of Farmleigh House.

There is a very real risk that Glin, like Carton and other historical houses, will be lost to the State due to ignorance and incompetence of the various State organisations failing to engage with each other and with the FitzGerald family.