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MIRIAM LORD

Dáil Sketch The outcry following Kenny’s non-apology shows he has misread the mood

Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Good old Oscar Wilde there, neatly summing up the Government’s reaction to the Magdalene laundries report for us.

They hire lawyers and economists to tell them how to watch the bottom line. These are the men and women who are paid the big bucks to help politicians guard against themselves when they might want to go mad and follow their hearts.

No point in them doing something they might regret when the profit and loss columns are totted up.