Politics
Pat Rabbitte: Quantity won’t be a problem when it comes to election candidates, but quality might
In these days of savagery by social media, it needs a person very committed to public service to volunteer to contest the public space
Mary Harney’s dictum that the worst day in government is better than the best day in opposition was not true of many days in the post-crash government of 2011 to 2016. Never, since independence, had the country fallen so far, so fast. Since we joined the European Economic Community in 1973, never was the country’s reputation so damaged or its leaders’ reliability so disregarded by member states.
The announcement by Brendan Griffin, the young Kerry ...
