Class action

SUBMISSIONS to a state body charged with redrawing constituency boundaries hardly make for interesting reading.

But buried among the 533 submissions received by the Constituency Commission, lay one which contained something of a social depth-charge.

The Association of Residents of Terenure (ART) sought what many have accepted is a valid political goal — the electoral reunification of an area. The constituency boundary runs right through the middle of the village, they pointed out. Wouldn’t it make sense for Terenure to be politically reunited?