Eight years after its controversial flotation, Eircom is poised to offer the Government a stake in its telecoms network in return for control over public broadband systems owned by the State, writes Arthur Beesley , Senior Business Correspondent (The Irish Times)

For barefaced cheek, this is hard to beat. The landline business is dying, and eircom wants to fob it off to the government, in return for an another real public asset. The government should smack eircom’s gob and teach it the manners it obviously lacks.

The government has botched the Metropolitan Area Networks, but that’s no reason to give it to eircom.

In my humble opinion.