“The Taoiseach has tried to brush this under the carpet.”
On some of the issues where the Government is most vulnerable – energy prices, refugees, crime, and so on – the opposition has no punch to throw.
“Can you name a study?”: Irish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly pressed on the effectiveness of face masks, as he floats the idea of reintroducing them this winter.
Slight-of-hand.
“It’s time we got real.”
Here, we’re shaking the whole thing up just to give another set of children their go playing with the toys.
“If you want my opinion, it’s this: Robert Troy should be hounded out of office. Chased. Given the boot. Fecked out. Perhaps even made a national pariah.
But not for this.”
Carol Nolan TD
Mercenary.
When politicians get into “building a legacy” mode, that’s when they’re at their most dangerous to their colleagues.
BEN SCALLAN puts the government out of their misery, and explains 3 things they can do to stop haemorrhaging support with the general public.
BEN SCALLAN: The government, having been utterly defeated on the turf ban, are now maintaining absurd whiffs of the policy simply to safe face and prevent a Green mutiny.