Cork Transport Strategy: Delivery dates push plan into realm of fantasy

A convention of our age is that we try to see the best in everything. We accentuate the positive and ignore the shadows thrown by sliver-lined clouds. Politicians have, naturally,

Cork Transport Strategy: Delivery dates push plan into realm of fantasy

A convention of our age is that we try to see the best in everything. We accentuate the positive and ignore the shadows thrown by sliver-lined clouds. Politicians have, naturally,

so refined this process they have a name for it: Constructive ambiguity. Naysayers are ridiculed and silenced, the blindly positive can be elevated to high office on a surge of wishful thinking. A bill for that delusion invariably arrives.

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