Hopelessly bogged down on travel and unable to move anywhere off the topic, a trapped Government was poked with sticks by the Opposition today. Then he bigged up what he claimed was a major piece of travel. Mr McNamara, almost unwillingly, found he had to stick a pudgy finger in the Taoiseach’s ice cream of optimism. The entire chamber, of course, has crossed the Liffey, in what many TDs now consider non-essential travel. It is a gigantically hollow exercise in all senses — like an empty show-piece theatre on a cruise ship hit by the coronavirus.

Source: Irish Independent July 22, 2020 15:11 UTC