Alison O'Connor: Government has too many cooks, just like 'The Two Popes'

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Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict and Jonathan Pryce as Pope Francis in 'The Two Popes'. Picture: PA Photo/Netflix/Peter Mountain.

It’s a bit like The Two Popes around here — that was the verdict of one senior Fine Gael politician on the tussle going on at the most senior political level in the country — an unseemly game of sharp elbows.

This politician, about to head off on a much-needed holiday, wearily reflected on the last few weeks; how so many situations had descended to the level of shambolic in terms of how the new Government had handled them. “Too many cooks, you could say, or just like The Two Popes,