Mick Clifford: What now for An Bord Pleanála after losing its chair and deputy chair?

The board faces a long road back

Dave Walsh did oversee the organisation during a time in which it now appears to have lost its way through malpractice and misgovernance by a small number of individuals. 

For a while there it looked as if Dave Walsh may have weathered the storm. 

Over a period of months, leading up to the summer, a series of revelations about malpractice and misgovernance in An Bord Pleanála had tumbled out in the media.