Worn-out system going strong

The budgetary processes that failed still remain intact, writes Gerard Howlin

OUR Government is perplexed and annoyed with us; we have let them down again. About 70% of the electorate could not even be depended upon to vote yes to a proposition to safeguard the welfare of vulnerable children.

Our leading screen star Gabriel Byrne is giving interviews in New York bemoaning an administration with no cultural vision beyond gathering in emigrants to put their spare change in our greasy till. Sheep-dipping in Bracken was too good for that ingrate.