Vote on presidential age limit: Offensive, laughable, patronising

AS THE Siteserv furore shows, the point where public and business interests meet is often a deep, murky bog, one pretty difficult to negotiate unless you’ve crossed it before.

Even before a conclusion is reached about what did or did not happen when IBRC sold the loss-making company to Denis O’Brien’s empire, the episode raises another, unrelated hare.

The Siteserv sale, and the privatisation — though the company’s spin doctors insist on describing it otherwise — of at least 10% of bus routes are at the root of entirely avoidable conflicts.