O’Devaney Gardens so symbolic - Stalled plan encapsulates our failures

Back in the old king’s time, long before a prince might feel the need to explain himself to a gawping television audience, impossibly optimistic self-help videos were commonplace. Many tried to help people lose weight.

One, fronted by an acrobatically lithe Californian lady offered a simple mantra: “Eat to live, don’t live to eat.”