Advisers, now you see them...

WE WERE perusing the list of Government special advisers located on the website of the Department of Public Expenditure. (We must fill our days somehow while this do-nothing Dáil is on official hiatus, as opposed to the unofficial hiatus when they return from summer holidays. We digress.) In this document there appears to be some significant confusion. Great blank spaces exist where the retinues of Eoghan Murphy, Charlie Flanagan and Frances Fitzgerald should appear. Commenting on the blank spots one mandarin sighed: ‘We know good advisers should be invisible but this is taking the art to extremes.’