Bertie making snail’s progress at history

THE Taoiseach said recently that “in other countries they just get on with things. If you take a pencil and account for things like snails and archaeology, you will never do anything”.

This is the latest in a series of such ludicrous remarks made, in particular, on the proposed M3.

Other countries do not knowingly plough motorways through their irreplaceable history and, even if they did, this does not mean we should blindly follow suit.