A former minister for waterways has been elected President, dooming the state to seven years of waffle. He is chiefly famous (in these parts) for having given four barges to “communities” as well as for seizing the waterways from the OPW; I understand that three of the barges have now been returned to the waterways service (now Waterways Ireland).
It seems that some folk are not entirely convinced of his poetic gifts. I stand with Nigel Molesworth.
Irish waterways history 