Kelly may be right about housing crisis, but it’s on his doorstep

DAWN French, great comic and Vicar of Dibley, was asked in a newspaper interview at the weekend what she thought was more important, ambition or talent, writes Gerard Howlin.

“Talent,” she replied. “Ambition without it is a hollow old thing.”

Most of us have enough failed pretension to take her point. Reading another newspaper on Sunday, which featured a lengthy, illuminating interview with Environment Minister Alan Kelly, French’s words hovered ominously. Ambition without talent is a hollow old thing, indeed.