Burnham wants to make Manchester the second seat of power. Could that happen in Ireland?

There's No 10 in the North but what about Leinster House on the Shannon? Alamy Stock Photo/The Journal The Morning Lead What can we learn from the Manchester model? ANDY BURNHAM’S RAPID ascent to power in the UK has been built on promises to rip power away from London, moving key levers of power to his Manchester base via a new ‘No 10 in the North’. Now installed as UK Labour leader and set to become prime minister, the former Manchester mayor has spoken of how “political power was centralised and economic power privatised” in the 1980s, and that he intends to reverse it. Could Burnham’s plan to bring core powers of the British government to Manchester work in Ireland, by moving key parts of government to Cork or Limerick, Galway or Waterford? This would not just be the decentralisation mo