Colin Sheridan is a writer and columnist. A former officer in the Irish Defence Forces he has extensive deployment experience as a peacekeeper with the United Nations, having lived and worked in the former Yugoslavia, West Africa, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine.
Last week, the Central Statistics Office announced that the number of people employed in Ireland had reached a whopping 74%, the highest rate since records began in 1998.
What the CSO didn’t tell us is that this peak was likely caused by the Cavan County board employing just about everybody they could find on the backroom team of their new manager Raymond Galligan. Actually, it’s less a backroom team, more of a logistics battalion. Rest assured, by the time Jimmy McGuinness puts his ticket together in Donegal the country should reach full employment.
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