Here’s to a loveable verbal terrorist who has done the State some fun

What he was at was intelligence-testing on the hoof. If a newcomer, faced with the yokel performance, decided this minister was a gobshite, then the minister had the measure of the newcomer.

The newcomer, on the other hand, didn’t have the measure of the minister

FOR the past few days, a flurry of letters and emails have been circulating among a group of people – some of them civil servants, some of them private sector workers – who have little in common other than a boss they once shared.