The only good thing anyone could say about Cullen is that he is not quite as bad as his predecessors.
O'rourke was apalling, even by the rotten standards of politics in this country.
Brennan was just a media whore who blurted out wave after wave of inflammatory rubbish that managed to get on the bad side of just about everyone as well as single-handedly causing industrial action in CIE with his substance-free rhetoric.
Cullen is an incompetent crony who blunders around chasing the cameras for any opportunity to look good. In any other country he would have been hounded out by the media for his previous crimes against the public purse and his constant stream of self-serving half-truths. He is just about capable of making an apparently coherent sentence or two which immediately makes him appear smarter than the typical Dail Eireann inmate.
Problem is that the opposition is little better.
Mitchell's only input is to blindly criticise the current lot on whatever issue seems to be the most populist at the time, often showing her ignorance of the basic facts in the process.
Roisin Shortall has appeared to know roughly what she is talking about the odd time that I have read/seen her input, but those are very rare appearances so it is hard to judge.
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