I am grateful for his offer to act as some sort of go-between with a view to achieving a compromise, even at this late stage.
He saw his role as a mediator, a go-between and a facilitator in the accommodation of opinions.
For me, it seems to be almost impossible, or very difficult, to be a go-between.
It is a great shame that it was withdrawn and that we must continue to use the private office as a go-between.
Those of us involved in hospital administration know that at local level hospital secretaries are the vital go-between of staff, patients, the public and committees.
It should be a one-stop shop for that, instead of people getting the go-between and run-around between those two departments.
We received a fairly detailed account of that from a number of sources, including the roving journalist who acted as go-between.
Simply put, it is like trying to make two into one, with the media acting as the go-between.