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Abolishing the Seanad is an intellectually lazy and
populist move that will compound our system's failure |
I shared a plane journey to New York yesterday with a man working with NGOs, in the area of global co-ordination. We talked about how difficult it was to control egos where righteousness levels seem to know no limit. "People get into this," he said, "with the best of intentions - then they forget about why they're there, they forget about the children, and the starving, and the organisation becomes an end in itself. You can get a lot done when you remind them about why they're there."
