Family of a person with disabilities living in Cork were offered respite care on the other side of the country in Donegal, the chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters has said.
When he stood outside Áras an Uachtaráin he admitted: “It’s a bit of a shock.” Nine days earlier an item on RTÉ radio speculated that John Bruton’s career was over. Had it ended there we would have seen it as ending in failure.
That the death of John Bruton at the age of 76 after a long illness should have occurred just one day after it was announced that the 75-year-old King Charles is stepping back from his royal duties while undergoing treatment for cancer seems fitting somehow.