Michael Moynihan: Dublin official's comments on English Market were a hostage to fortune

The hubris of Dublin City Council's Richard Shakespeare was notable from the start, as plans for that city's Victorian market recede into the distance

Finance minister Paschal Donohoe; Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ray McAdam; Jill McGovern, Dublin City Council; and housing minister James Browne, launching the development last week.

Here’s something that may ring a bell with long-suffering readers of this column.

(Is there any other kind, eh?) In April last year I wrote about a development in the capital, one which appeared at first to be pretty tangential to those of us here in the Deep South.