In The Arms Of An Expert.

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Conor McCabe is bringing a little humour to the tedium with his collages and his reports from the Banking Inquiry.

Here’s one fine example:

“When I was a child in primary school my way of dealing with Irish class was to find a word in the question that matched a word in the text and hope for the best. The sentence I would find would be the one I’d read out. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. But, it was a plan, and it helped me get through the hour.

In the absence of any understanding of the grammar, of the way the words actually relate to each other, you grab what you can and try to make sense of the situation.

In terms of the bank guarantee and bailout, and the different narratives that are being thrown out there, we can’t really do this – we can’t just pick out single words, single events, and use them to make our story. We need to have enough of an overview of the dynamics at play in order to make sure we don’t stray from the path as we go forward…”

For a thorough but accessible and absorbing report on the complicated inquiry see Dublin Opinion here.

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