Dr. Ruairi Hanley rightly describes Ireland as a banana republic in an article outlining the long drawn out shenanigans surrounding the building of a new national children’s hospital.
He concludes his article:
Our nation was faced with a simple task and we made a balls of it.
As it happens, on the retrospective column in the Irish Times today this entry appears
http://tinyurl.com/bsssz5v
It seems nothing has changed since 1934. It must be the climate!