The bullish O'Brien will be central to the Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt's World Cup 2015 plans, but now faces another setback just as he was eyeing his international return.
But many governors (and recent presidents) have become wary of exercising their power of late, for fear of stirring up just the sort of controversy now facing Mr Barbour.
Although teaching unions have been trying to warn about the coming storm, it has been hard to whip up interest in the rising costs of pension and national insurance contributions that are just part of the problem now facing schools and their vanishing budgets.
The fast way to re-grease your bearings is by just shooting grease in the bearings, screwing the cone back in, flipping the wheel over, hold the cone of the bearing you've just greased, grab the axle now facing up, unscrew it to reveal the other side's bearings and pack them with grease.
But Mr. Navalny is just one of several opposition leaders now facing criminal charges seemingly unrelated to their political activity.
The man who brought freshness and dynamism to the presidency in 2007 is now facing defeat after just one term.
As she marched, she said in an interview with Al Jazeera that just as Mr. Mubarak now "faces charges of instigating the killing of protesters during the revolution," the military council "should also be tried for the crimes committed under its rule".
The first wave of a powerful Pacific storm spread rain and snow early Friday through much of California, where communities endangered by a wildfire just weeks ago now faced the threat of mud and debris flows.
And indeed, the questionable merits of the proposed tax aside, it seems strange to think that the Council could feel itself so right just a month ago, and now, faced with the prospect of having to convince the public that it's a good idea, completely abandoned that conviction.
Just as we now face painful choices on the bill due from deficit spending, we can expect painful choices the longer we delay reconciling the bill for our carbon debt.
