I USED to be a wild one for setting up committees and organisations. It is never a pretty sight.
Children raise it to an art form.
Adults are supposed to outgrow it, but seldom do. Politicians use it when under pressure, and mostly get away with it without undue damage, but occasionally it comes back to bite. We are up to our necks at the moment in the blame game. If it continues and our politicians fail to cut a deal out of the political package that the Irish government has constructed then our future looks bleak. Predicting futures is a precarious business but, nevertheless, the following is a likely outline of what lies ahead.