‘Tis the season for strategies, reviews and reports. Reports issued from the relevant government departments on the Suckler Brand Oversight Group, the Office of Shared Services, the National Risk Assessment, the new strategy for rural Ireland, and more.  To precisely no one’s surprise, the strategy for rural Ireland got all the press. In fairness to the writers of the strategy, there is a degree of ambition to the rural strategy which marks it out as completely different.  This is also the first major strategy to have been written in the context of the pandemic. It places remote working, bottom-up decision…