Pat Rabbitte: For FF, FG and Greens, the real challenge of governing begins
With the pandemic emergency receding, the government parties have three years to show what they can do with problems such as the housing crisis
If the pandemic had a silver lining for the government, it was that it forced discipline on the three parties in the coalition. There was little room for dissent. As happened in the wake of the financial crash a decade earlier, governing fell to a small number of ministers. Public health was the unifying predominant objective, and all politicians were reliant on the public health experts.
The opposition, until the latter stages of the crisis, ...
