Time to end hubris on water fiasco - Irish Water

Any grown-up organisation that presided over a litany of calamity like Irish Water would acknowledge its errors and admit it was time to go back to the drawing board and reimagine the entire project.

Yet, the Governmnet persists in flogging something the looks ever more like a dying horse. Not only is it encouraging those who oppose water charges, it is alienating those who recognise the legitimacy of the charge. It is losing the war on two fronts — and for no reason other than its own embarassing ineptitude.

On top of that it is, by its intransigence and inconsistency, jeopardising the legitimacy of an entirely justifiable, overdue and badly needed public project.