Emulate the Dubs, don’t envy them

Every county in Ireland needs more services and facilities and the social glue applied by boots-on-the-ground workers like the GAA’s GPOs, writes Brendan O’Brien

Thursday morning in Carpenterstown and the thick curtain of fog smothering Dublin’s northside has prompted the sort of rush-hour traffic that keeps parents lingering for that extra minute of small talk after the school run before surrendering to the agonising crawl to work.

Well, that and events in Parnell Park the night before.